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Author Robin McLean talks about her new book, "Pity the Beast."

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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Doctor and writer Laura Kolbe talks about her new collection of poems, "Little Pharma."

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Beth Milligan talks with Alex Michaelides, author of "The Silent Patient" and "The Maidens."

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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What do you get when you mix a revenge plot, but everyone is witches? And two of them fall for each other? You get Payback's a Witch, a sizzling, w...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 10:17
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American novelist William Kotzwinkle is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Book Critics Circle award nominee, a win...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:04
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Dean Karnazes said, “The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when thi...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:06
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 31:19
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 27:20
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
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Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:06
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KBFT Native Writing Fest Series is a Live Community Writers Event & Interview with the world's most notable writers! In this segment we meet with B...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
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This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II. First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Stanley Horowitz wrote, ”Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Welcome to another e...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 11:26

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 10:28
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We celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month with the second part of our interview with poet Xanath (shaw-nath) Caraza, who is a finalist for the ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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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: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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At melodically challenged, we are proud of our show’s sound, and for that we thank Rettward von Doernberg, who generously lets us use his music, B...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:07
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The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 37:07
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRSC and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
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There are more than 100,000 libraries placed worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got book reviews...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
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HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Books W...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer Sarah Pinsker. Her new novel is called "We Are Satellites." It's about one family and the technol...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 10:47