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New Birchwood Cafe Cookbook features Good Real Food
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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For 20 years now the Birchwood Cafe has served innovative, sustainable food in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis. Birchwood owner Tracy Single...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 20:53
Allusionist 8: Crosswords
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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Cryptic crosswords: delightful brain exercise, or the infernal taunting of the incomprehensible?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
Programs from FY 14
From: KMSU
Series: Tales From The Poor House
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All programs produced during spring semester, 2014.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:35:12
"A Hard Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It" by Greg Breining with photography by Layne Kennedy
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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A picturesque manual on how to enjoy the beauty, wonder, and, yes, insanity of ice-fishing all year round. Breining's book, “A Hard Water World: I...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
"Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook" by Beth Dooley
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads talks with Beth Dooley. Her book, "Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook" is a home chef’s guide to shopping and cooking from Mi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Nonviolent Life, Happiness & Chasing the Moon Thieves (Peace Talks Radio)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: The Nonviolent Life by John Dear
Three authors talk about how their books relate to peacemaking. The Nonviolent Life by John Dear, Before Happiness by Shawn Achor and Princess Mari...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Aspen Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Lessons On Writing With Style
From: Adam Scull
Series: The Eat Sleep Write Podcast
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Lessons on Writing With Style is an in depth source of information for writers looking to improve their command of the craft. Today I'm going share...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Don Piper Interview
From: Lana Straub
Caption: Lana Straub and Don Piper
Interview with Don Piper on the trials, tribulations and joys of being a bestselling author

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 22:26
The Beat: Marsh Muirhead - "Navigating"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
Love Poems
From: NPR
Series: How To Do Everything
Caption: Via Flickr: Robert Couse-Baker
We tell you how to write a love poem.

Bought by Prairie Public, KPVL, XRAY.fm, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 4
Ozark Reflections, an American Story (with additional music)
From: Gumbeater
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The original "Ozark Reflections" story, including additional folk music by Becky Stevens at end of narrative.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 54:25
The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Longfellow was an immensely versatile poet who excelled at virtually every form and genre from the epic to the sonnet. Find out why.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 20:57
  • Purchases: 2
What's the Word? The African Novel
From: Modern Language Association
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An exploration of the African novel

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
HowTo Write For Newspapers
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Mail off your article as soon as you write it.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:51
Adipose Rex Had a Strange Complex
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Adipose Rex was the fattest king in Thebes

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: :23
Is Ain't
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Playing With Words

  • Added: Feb 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:43
Homer's Iliad
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Simple storytelling has become complicated.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2009
  • Length: 01:43
Worn Out Wisdom
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who scrape together and repackage scraps of tired old worn out wisdom, but when it’s encapsulated they call it an aphorism, becaus...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 1
On Elmer Gantry and President Clinton
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Having an affair wasn’t bad. Getting caught was bad.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2009
  • Length: 01:09
I Wonder Where My Glasses Go?
From: The humble Farmer
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A commentary on lost items

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
Do You Remember What You Hear?
From: The humble Farmer
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Do we have selective hearing?

Bought by KUT and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Aug 18, 2008
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Of What Use Would I Have For Such a Trifling Sum?
From: The humble Farmer
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The Count of Monte Cristo made Exxon oil executives look like bottle pickers

  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
I'll Be Back Momentarily
From: The humble Farmer
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Dan Rather made it respectable

  • Added: Jun 23, 2008
  • Length: 02:03
Brad Pitt, Garlic and Onions
From: The humble Farmer
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What do women want?

  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: :39
Jack Kerouac: Writing Lesson
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Jack Kerouacs's Belief & Technique for Modern Prose - a reading

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 18, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 2