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You 2.0: where the self-help industry succeeds, and where it misses the mark
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
An Hour of Storytelling - Don't Kill Santa! - Holiday Stories by Donald Davis and Andy Offutt Irwin
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Donald Davis and Andy Offutt Irwin

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WVPE, Angelica Community Radio, and KSJE


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Kate Lebo
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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"Pie lady" Kate Lebo discusses her newly revised and expanded cookbook, "Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Happy Prince
From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly
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The classic holiday tale by Oscar Wilde is interpreted along with sacred Christmas music.

Bought by Michigan Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 2
Breaking Bread 23
From: melodically challenged
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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is “Breaking Bread”—a celebration of what we eat, what we cook, and what we share. In tod...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Sublime Thanksgiving Jazz
From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly
Caption: SUBLIME THANKSGIVING JAZZ
Thanksgiving Jazz | Thanksgiving in Oldtown Combining the most thematic of jazz standards and new additions with a few excerpts from Harriet Beeche...

Bought by WJSU and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin visits a small town that’s haunted by a Christmas tragedy in Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, Raven Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 6
Shelf Discovery: The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins an American student on a Cotswolds Christmas getaway that doesn’t go as planned in The Christmas Gues...

Bought by KKRN, RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A reading of Oscar Wilde's Classic Ghost Story

Bought by KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special seasonal reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 188...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 04:02
Constant Wonder - Making the Modern Christmas
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Grace Paley's Short Story "The Loudest Voice"
From: New Letters on the Air
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A holiday favorite, this highly anthologized short story is read by the late author Grace Paley. "The Loudest Voice" is an amusing tale about a lit...

Bought by WDCB, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Stories Inspired by Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Original retellings and adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Bought by WYAP, KKRN, KUHF, KTXK, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin celebrates the holidays with Hercule Poirot in the audio edition of Agatha Christie’s The Adventure of the ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns home for a deadly holiday scavenger hunt in The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict.

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets a healthy dose of holiday humor and romance with a little help from the Holiday Spirit in Just Like Ma...

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Murder at an Irish Christmas by Carlene O'Connor
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for a murderer at a family holiday gathering in Carlene O’Connor’s Murder at an Irish Christmas.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Christmas at the Restaurant by Pamela Kelley
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns to Nantucket for food and family in the audio edition of Pamela Kelley’s Christmas at the Restaurant.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Twas the Knife Before Christmas by Jacqueline Frost
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates a small-town murder during the holiday festivities with the audio edition of Jacqueline Frost’...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the Cotswolds to visit a couple of booksellers on a quest to bring some holiday cheer to their t...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Old Ghost Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ruskin Bond's book "When the Night Falls"
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
545: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times / 546: Endings (In Four Novellas), 12/26/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Shelf Discovery: Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for answers with Agatha Christie’s beloved sleuth in the audio edition of Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Stuck on You by Portia MacIntosh
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows the holiday adventures of a Londoner and her horrible boss in the audio edition of Portia MacIntosh...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Deck the Halls, We're Off the Walls! by Dan Gutman
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes to the mall to meet Santa and his friends in the audio edition of Dan Gutman’s Deck the Halls, We’re O...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3