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Talkin' Trash
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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According to the Keep America Beautiful website, Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year and since 1960, the amount of waste gene...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
MN Reads: "Dreaming Our Futures" with Brenda J. Child
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Brenda J. Child talks about the new book (and new art exhibit) "Dreaming Our Futures"

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 08:34
From HAM Radio to a Book of Guinness Records!
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: HAM Radio at Campbell
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks MN, shares the latest in events, activities and books!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 18:35
Shelf Discovery: Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows an aging actor on a mission to save his daughter from kidnappers in Hollywood Hustle by Jon Lindstrom.

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


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Found in Translation
From: KALW
Caption: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan (center) conversed with his moderator at the Kolkata Literary Meet via an interpreter, Credit: Sandip Roy
Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Earth, Wind & Fire
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music imbued with Earth, wind, and fire, in actuality or metaphorically.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:19
Spaceships Over Glasgow
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we looked at the autobiography of Stuart Braithwaite, founder of the long-running post-rock band Mogwai. We listened to some of th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
"Feng Menglong's Judge Bao traces the footsteps of a spirit", interpreted by Michael Henrik Wynn
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of Augus...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 39:50
598: Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Hones, and Meklit, 2/2/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This Black History Month Special features 22nd Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-songwriter Meklit.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
An Hour of Storytelling - Creating Community and Summer Camp: An Intergalatic Report
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Sheila Arnold and Paul Strickland and an alien infiltrates a summer camp looking for nefarious human plots

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 7
MN Reads: "Gunflint Falling" by Cary J. Griffith
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Cary J. Griffith talks about his new book "Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters"

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 10:13
On the Beach - in January - for Campbell Corner??
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Warm winter weather brings out the "goofy" on this edition of Campbell Corner....featuring the Campbell Public Library of east Grand Forks, MN!

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 13:19
You're Saying It Wrong: An Introduction
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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Who are we? What are we doing here? This episode will introduce listeners to host Fletcher Powell and language experts Kathy Petras and Ross Petras...

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Winter of Content
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A queue on a rainy evening for author autographs and books at the Kolkata Literary Meet. , Credit: Sandip Roy
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
The Clinic by Cate Quinn
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin checks into rehab to search for answers with a grieving sister in The Clinic by Cate Quinn.

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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 6
20240129: Read And Ride, 1/29/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Read And Ride
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...

Bought by KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KECG, KDLG and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
597: J. Wortham, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Margo Cilker , 1/26/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features journalist J. Wortham of The New York Times Magazine, author Curtis Sittenfeld, and singer-songwriter Margo Cilker.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Dawn Powell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Josh Slotnick, Part Two
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick discusses his second collection of poetry, "If Only." This is part two of a ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Hour of Storytelling - Unexpected Journeys and Domestic Droid Disaster
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Bil Lepp and Shonaleigh. Plus, Dad won a new cleaning robot. What could go wrong?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE, KECG, KTXK, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Whit Stillman, Episode 1: I'm Not Entirely Joking
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Entertainment
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This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
MN Reads: "Spirits Dancing" with Photographer Travis Novitsky
From: WDSE
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Photographer Travis Novitsky talks about his new book "Spirits Dancing"

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:14
Winter Fun in NW Minnesota!
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN stops by to share more "fun" news at Campbell!

  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 13:58
"Black History Month Special" with Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Jones, and Meklit
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11

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