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Christoph Irmscher: Against Complacency: Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience"
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This week on Interchange, host Doug Storm speaks with Christoph Irmscher, Provost Professor of English at Indiana University, about Henry David Tho...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Nerds - "When You Go the Opposite Direction of the Herd, the Destination Isn't Marked By A Crowd."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:49
Episode 13 - “Henceforth Be Masterless: D. H. Lawrence on the Idea of America”
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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WE like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children’s books. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains a...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 12 – "The Purse Turned Inside Out: Engendering Personalities in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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On this episode of The Custom House we’ll investigate the erotic entanglements of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to try to find out just who wears the...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:44
An Interivew with Mark Trahant
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Mark Trahant talks about and reads from his book 'The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars: Henry M. Jackson, Forrest J. Gerar...

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


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
"Surviving Meningitis" with Gary Springer
From: Adam Scull
Series: The Eat Sleep Write Podcast
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Some stories are meant to be written, other stories are meant to be told. Gary Springer’s story is emotionally uplifting, but heart wrenching to t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 21:02
Episode 11: "When Betwen Two Infinities, Go All In: Reading Pascal's Pensées"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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On this episode of The Custom House we'll try to justify the decision to "go all in" when facing the incomprehensible two inifinites of Blaise Pascal.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 31:11
The Art of Minnesota Author, Tom Berg
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of, Art Beat - we visit with an individual who penned a book about Minnesota politics during the span of 1968 through 1978. The boo...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 10: "The Ruins of Biblical Hegemony: A Tale Told at Qumran"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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On this episode of The Custom House we'll find out how the multifaceted world of the early Jewish literary imagination has been flattened and releg...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 31:08
Episode 9: "Bringing Down the House: Force and Guile in Milton's Samson Agonistes"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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On this episode of The Custom House we'll investigate the claims of Milton's Samson as he argues his holy dispensation as a divine right to be viol...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 31:34
The Rapidly Changing City of Shanghai (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
World Book Night is April 23--learn how one organization is spreading the love of reading, person to person
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Carl Lennertz, executive director of World Book Night U.S., spoke with WTIP's Buck Benson Mar. 29 about World Book Night, held April 23 each year. ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown: "I just love the feeling of good old papyrus in my hands."."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Little Reason(s) For Optimism (with Brian Vander Ark
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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In this episode of Soulseeds Radio, host Ian Lawton discusses the role of optimism and finding "little reasons" for hope, even when it seems there ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
Putting Fear In Perspective (with Seth Glier)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton's theme in this episode of Soulseeds Radio explores putting fear in perspective. As Emerson said, "Do the thing you fear and the death o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Casting Your Whole Vote (With Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Soulseeds Radio host Ian Lawton explores casting your whole vote -- not just voting once every four years, but letting your whole life, all your wo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 1
You've Gotta Have Faith (with Josh Rose)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton looks at many sides of Faith -- taking power where you can control things in your life, surrendering where you can't control things in y...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
Soulseeds Radio: Living Hope (with Channing and Quinn)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Welcome to Soulseeds Radio with host Ian Lawton -- talking today about hope which is not just an idea, not just a philosophy, but something that's ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
THE Memoirists
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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On this edition we explore the literaty genre or the memoir.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
"Books That Shaped America" from the Library of Congress...what would be on your list?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Mark Dimunation, chief of the Library of Congress' rare book & special collection division, joined WTIP's Bob Carter recently to discuss their "Boo...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Steve Downing talks Poet Laureates in Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Steve Downing
Steve Downing recently attended the inaugural reading and crowning of Deborah Cooper as Duluth's fourth Poet Laureate. Steve recounts a brief histo...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Midwestern Poet Trish Reeves
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Trish Reeves
Poet Trish Reeves draws inspiration from family history, human resilience, and a series of glass negatives which are featured in NEW LETTERS magazi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Todd Boss - "Dream In Perfect Color Though I Might"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
The Beat: Gail Rixen - "One of Us"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:25

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