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This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
This edition of Stay Human is about remembering and honoring our parents, helping us to see more connections between their lives and ours.
- Added: Jan 16, 2018
- Length: 59:05
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
Tune in this week as host Michael Perry welcomes the world-chart-topping boys and girl ~ Gaelic Storm ~ to the Big Top stage!
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 05:51
My friendship with legendary puppeteer, Burr Tillstrom, and love affair with Kukla, Ollie, Fletcher Rabbit, and the rest of the Kuklapolitan Player...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 12:39
The heartbreaking account of losing my black lab, named Samba, to Cancer and how my yellow lab, Maggie May, changed our lives.
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 22, 2013
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
A short story about my romance with a young German actress back in 1986, based on my journal entries and her letters. Thanks to Noel Dinneen and E...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 23, 2010
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
A Cringe-inspired event where adults read from the embarrassing writings spawned from their juvenile minds.
- Added: Feb 28, 2010
- Length: 01:18:24
Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Grandmother and granchild return to New Orleans to find the memory of recenly passed Grandfather
- Added: Aug 31, 2005
- Length: 10:40
Christmas day at Ground Zero--Essay
- Added: Oct 02, 2003
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 7
