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2024-06-09 Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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This summer, how about a philosophical take on popular culture?

Bought by KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Normal Women of England: 900 Years of Making History: INTERVIEW WITH SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATE PHILIPPA GREGORY
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang
🚀✨ New Episode Alert! 📚🎙️ Dive into history with bestselling author Smithsonian Associate Philippa Gregory on The Not Old Better Show! 📜👑✨ Discover...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 31:57
Andrew Huang: Make Your Own Rules
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about YouTube music influencer Andrew Huang's foray into the music book world, "Make Your Own Rules,' a book packed with...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2024
  • Length: 27:27
An Hour of Storytelling - Lyn Ford, Kevin Kling and Sus
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next Hour of Storytelling from the Apple Seed, you'll hear terrific tales from Lyn Ford and the great Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling. And...

Bought by WVPE, Angelica Community Radio, KTXK, KSJE, KCNP and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 8
Of Two Minds
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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Mae West said, “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” Welcome to melodically challenged when this week, we are of two min...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:01
The Oldest of Old Worlds
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...

Bought by KRPS and KECG


  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
616: Sam Sanders, Reggie Watts, and Sway Wild, 6/7/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features podcaster Sam Sanders, comedian Reggie Watts, and music from indie folk duo Sway Wild.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Write Question - Maxim Loskutoff
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Maxim Loskutoff discusses his novel, "Old King."

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
MN Reads: "Annika Rose" by Cheri Johnson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Cheri Johnson talks about her new book "Annika Rose"

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 06:51
National Writers Series: Don Winslow
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Doug Stanton talks with crime novelist Don Winslow.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
Shelf Discovery: The Golden Gals' French Adventure by Judy Leigh
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a life-changing vacation with a couple of unlikely friends in The Golden Gals’ French Adventure by ...

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
I Sing What You Loved
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Singing as an aspect of life and love.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:27
Sasha Frere-Jones
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:26
Minneapolis' first Poet Laureate reflects on the future of her work
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Heid Erdrich is Minneapolis first poet laureate, Credit: Angela Erdrich
Heid Erdrich is Minneapolis' first poet laureate for the year 2024. She is Ojibwe, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain band.

  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 05:08
903: Avian obsessions / 904: As read by the author, 6/1/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Avian obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...

  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
An Hour of Storytelling - The Power of the Little Things and Starfish and Student Leader
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Bil Lepp, Sheila Arnold, Charlotte Blake Alston, and Kate Dudding.

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


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 5
Smooshed-up Words
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.

Bought by KRPS and KECG


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
615: Bianca Bosker and Brittany Davis, 5/31/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features journalist Bianca Bosker and music from singer-songwriter Brittany Davis.

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Write Question - Betsy Gaines Quammen
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Historian and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses "True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America."

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
MN Reads: "Oskar's Voyage" by Laura Purdie Salas
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about her book "Oskar's Voyage"

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 08:07
The Heiress
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Is he a love-struck suitor - or a fortune hunter stalking his prey?

Bought by KCHW, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 24
Rita Dove: Rara Avis
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rita Dove, Credit: Photo of Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 24:10
Shelf Discovery: Everything We Never Said by Sloan Harlow
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a grieving teenage girl as she begins to question everything that happened before her best friend’s...

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


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Lit-Rock
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 27:28
"The Disclosure", a short story about John Rabe (1882–1950) by Michael Henrik Wynn
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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The Second World War had been raging for some years in Asia, when Germany invaded the Sudentenland. One of the great heroes of the struggle against...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 13:11

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