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MPR host Cathy Wurzer on embracing illness and death to live more fully

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

Journalist and MPR host Cathy Wurzer and educator Bruce Kramer embarked on a series of broadcast conversations as Bruce dealt with ALS, about how f...

Added: May 12, 2015
Length: 24:03

TSR15-16 Gaelic Storm

From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio

Tune in this week as host Michael Perry welcomes the world-chart-topping boys and girl ~ Gaelic Storm ~ to the Big Top stage!

Bought by KMSU, KALH, KPIP-LP, WRNC-LP, KSRQ and more

Added: Apr 09, 2015
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 9

"The Crops Look Good: News from a Midwestern Family Farm: by Sara DeLuca

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Sara DeLuca reluctantly accepted a packet of family letters from a relative decades ago, and she talks about the book that they became decades late...

Added: Mar 22, 2015
Length: 09:52

Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Jessie Close talks about and reads from her memoir, Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Feb 13, 2015
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 3

TSR15-08 The Trouble Notes & Blue Canvas Orchestra

From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio

Gypsy jazz from Berlin, Germany along with Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, WRNC-LP and more

Added: Feb 13, 2015
Length: 59:30
Purchases: 8

"Citizen Swain: Tales from a Minnesota Life" by Thomas H. Swain

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Tom H. Swain's long career spanned the spheres of politics, education, and business. But for decades, even long past retirement, he has also serve...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 12, 2015
Length: 06:14
Purchases: 1

Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Feb 08, 2015
Length: 08:50
Purchases: 2

Claudia Emerson: Past American Voice

From: New Letters on the Air

We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...

Bought by WABE and WNJR

Added: Dec 31, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

"How to Survive: The Extraordinary Resilience of Ordinary People" by Andy Steiner

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author Andy Steiner talks about the idea of resilience ... and how the people she interviewed for her book demonstrate that we may have more than w...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KSRQ

Added: Dec 31, 2014
Length: 10:41
Purchases: 2

TSR15-02 Rusted Root

From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio

Having collaborated with one another for two decades, Rusted Root, has honed the perfect combination of musical intuition, freedom and virtuosity, ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ and more

Added: Dec 30, 2014
Length: 59:30
Purchases: 8

TSR15-01 New First Night

From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio

New First Night ~ the official kick-off of the Big Top tent season featuring host Michael Perry and Big Top Chautauqua's Blue Canvas Orchestra and ...

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRNC-LP, KALH, WDSE, WUMB and more

Added: Dec 30, 2014
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 8

Memoirist Cheryl Strayed

From: New Letters on the Air

Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...

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

Added: Dec 11, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 5

Sherman Alexie Discusses Thanksgiving

From: Bitch Media

Native American author Sherman Alexie shares how he celebrates Thanksgiving and his memories of the holiday growing up.

Bought by KUPR low power FM

Added: Nov 06, 2014
Length: 09:30
Purchases: 1

"Have I Taught You Everything I Know" by Diane Skomars

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Diane Fay Skomars about her book, "Have I Taught You Everything I Know," a collection of daily advice written to her daughter, Monette, following a...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Sep 17, 2014
Length: 09:30
Purchases: 1

She Thought She Was Done With Montana...

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Carrie LaSeur talks about and reads from 'The Home Place,' a mystery novel in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family’s ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, WCWP, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Aug 28, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

Recovery

From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human

This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9

Added: Jun 27, 2014
Length: 58:52
Purchases: 2

Poet, Novelist, and Non-Fiction Writer Janet Burroway

From: New Letters on the Air

Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...

Added: Jun 26, 2014
Length: 29:00

Angela Misri on Creative Risks - Episode 7

From: Brian Cauley
Series: Tiny Conversations

A conversation with a former CBC Manager about leaving her career to follow her passion of writing.

Added: Jun 06, 2014
Length: 12:44

Mental Health

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series

Using his mother’s struggles with depression and his sister’s battles with schizophrenia as a backdrop, MK Asante addresses mental health issues an...

Bought by WEAA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPVL

Added: Feb 22, 2014
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 3

Mental Health Support

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series

Using excerpts from his mother’s diary as a glimpse into the mind of someone suffering from serious mental health issues, Asante redirects the list...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEAA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPVL

Added: Feb 22, 2014
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 4

Sibling Importance

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series

While virtually bestowing deity status upon his older brother when he was a young boy, MK Asante learned firsthand the influence that siblings can ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Feb 21, 2014
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 1

The Village

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series

MK Asante acknowledges the primacy of the community (the village) to the African-American community and discusses the importance of collective resp...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Feb 20, 2014
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 1

Metal Health - Community

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series

Despite being a tabooed topic in much of the African American community, mental health illness has become ubiquitous. MK Asante advocates for frank...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Feb 20, 2014
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 1

Family's artistic creativity spans multiple generations

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

The sudden and dramatic regression of Monica Moses’ development in the early years of her life alarmed her mother and grandmother. They watched as ...

Added: Feb 18, 2014
Length: 04:16

Ezra Pound Award-Winning Poet Alice Friman

From: New Letters on the Air