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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
IGF Book Club - The Bhagavad Gita with Ravi Gupta
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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IGF Book Club—we're reading the Bhagavad Gita, as translated by Laurie Patton.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
An Hour of Storytelling - Happiness and The Last Doll
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Angela Lloyd and Paul Strickland, and will Alicia learn to speak up when her quinceanera party starts spinning out of control?

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


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Victoria Chang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Victoria Chang discusses "With My Back to the World," a poetry collection that engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin.

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


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Rheturn of Rhetoric
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "A Family Tree" by Staci Lola Druillard
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Staci Lola Druillard talks about her new book "A Family Tree"

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 10:03
The Seagull
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Calista Flockhart and T.R. Knight star in Chekhov's masterpiece.

Bought by KCHW, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 28
614: R. Eric Thomas, Ian Karmel, and NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND, 5/24/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features author R. Eric Thomas, comedian Ian Karmel, and music from indie group NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND.

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Shelf Discovery: Mind Games by Nora Roberts
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a girl with a gift in her ongoing battle against the man who killed her parents in Mind Games by No...

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


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Jack Wright
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...

  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 28:29
The Write Question - Leonard S. Marcus
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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To celebrate 50 years of children’s programming on Montana Public Radio, host Lauren Korn speaks with Leonard S. Marcus, one the world’s foremost s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
613: Courtenay Hameister, Charley Crockett, and Moshow the Cat Rapper, 5/17/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This 20th Anniversary Special features writer and former Live Wire host Courtenay Hameister, plus music from Charley Crockett and Moshow the Cat Ra...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00

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