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An Hour of Storytelling - Storyteller Donald Davis's First Day of School & Extracurricular Activities
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next Hour of Storytelling from the Apple Seed team, you'll hear the terrific storytellers Donald Davis from North Carolina and Andy Offut Ir...

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


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School?
From: Open to Debate
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Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
An Hour of Storytelling - Storyteller Adam Booth Rolls Down to the Roller Rink & The Cavern of Bethesda
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next Hour of Storytelling, brought to you by the Apple Seed, an audio drama about a kid with an important choice to make, a matter of life a...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, KCNP, KECG and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
An Hour of Storytelling - A Norse Story from Simon Brooks and a Kenyan Story from Mara Menzies and The Glass Cutter
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next Hour of Storytelling from the Apple Seed, you're gonna hear storyteller Simon Brooks with a story that will make you rethink what it me...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KTXK, KECG, KSJE, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Revisiting Author and Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Amy Tan, Credit: Julian Johnson
In time for Mother's Day: Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan discusses “The Joy Luck Club,” her writing with its themes of family...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 4
An Hour of Storytelling - Storyteller Bil Lepp launches a Giant Pumpkin and The Crystal Whale
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next Hour of Storytelling brought to you by the Apple Seed team, a story from West Virginia storyteller called the Bored Gourd. About a kid,...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KCNP, KECG, KSJE, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 8
Meet Meg Medina: Library of Congress’s 2023-24 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Meg Medina, Credit: Scott Elmquist
Author and Library of Congress’s 2023-24 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina wants to spark joy in young readers as they f...

Bought by WSLR and KZUM


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Hour of Storytelling - Donald Davis, Lyn Ford and The Viking Mascot
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next storytelling hour, you'll hear a story from Donald Davis called Getting Rid of the Babysitter. That and an audio drama about a high sch...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KECG, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KCNP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 9
The Poetry Bug
From: melodically challenged
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Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Poet Ellen Bass: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Poet Ellen Bass: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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California poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO, describes looking back on her childhood in Philadelphia for inspiration, especially...

Bought by KAAD-LP and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Revisiting Ecopoet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

Bought by KECG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Poet Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
An Hour of Storytelling - Easter Stories from Dolores Hydock and Rev. Robert B. Jones & The Shiny
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A terrific story from Alabama storyteller Dolores Hydock plus a musical treatment from the wonderful Detroit musician Reverend Robert B Jones. All ...

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


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Classic Myths
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, the mythologies of cultures from all over the world can help teach us about what people have been thinking of, wha...

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


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 7
Writing Through (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KHEN-LP, KCHW, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Writing Through (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, KVSC, WRMU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Writing Through (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXCV and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Writing Through (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KXCV and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Apple Seed - The Nightingale
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, how do you think your life would be if you got everything you wished for? You'll hear an old folk tale about a sto...

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


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 7
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45
Christopher Bollen discusses "The Lost Americans"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 31:01
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1

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