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Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg - "Alternative Gifts"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
Acoustic Stories: Mary Finch - Christmas Tree
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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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
Holiday Episode: At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
Bells Are Ringing
From: Margaret Agard
Series: Christmas
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Ringing the Salvation Army bell is boring, cold work during the busy Christmas holiday season. Margaret Agard, author and bell ringing volunteer, ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KTXK, KZMU Moab Community Radio, 'The Sea', and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 5
Really, I'm Trying.
From: Shizue Roche Adachi
Caption: family photograph
A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Saving the Frogs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown on rescue.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
All the King's Men and the Politics at MN's Iron Range
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown on books.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
Marriage and Severe Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown on severe weather.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
Life Before & After Title IX in Southern Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Cindy Davis talks about life before and after Title IX in Southern Minnesota.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
Special: The Monti American Graduate
From: WUNC
Series: American Graduate
Caption: The Monti American Graduate
The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
UnFictional: My So Called Guru
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Remembrance: On Time And Distance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Chu-Yin Lo Roberts
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Dancing with Many Voices
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this toe-tapping news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores Dancing with Many Voices, a multi-discipline dance perfor...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 26:10
All You Need is a Wall (Memo)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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Nothing makes sense when these things happen.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Radio Workshop—Safety
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: The Radio Workshop
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What makes you feel safe? A person, a place, a sound? The Children's Radio Foundation spoke to a pupil, a parent and a life-guard about what makes ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 15:00
Ruffian
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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When Re:sound host, Gwen Macsai was fourteen, the incredible female race-horse, Ruffian, ran straight into her heart and left a permanent impression.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZYX, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 10
Great Expectations: A Love Story
From: Tom Tenney
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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
The Last Word on Road Trips
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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There's a world of difference between just driving somewhere and heading off on a road trip in that direction.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:36
D'oh a deer or Deer on the Road
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's Commentaries
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Some think of Bambi. Some gardeners call them rats on stilts. Still others view them as little more than obstacles on our roads. Writer Andrew Hill...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:37
Commentator Robert Saxton on Being a Hockey Dad
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Regular KAXE contributor Robert Saxton is a writer and is often referred to as "the minivan man," here's his essay about being a Hockey Dad (fyi: t...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:52
OMG: Adults read from their teenage journals, diaries, yearbooks and old love letters.
From: Kinsee Morlan
Series: This Small Town Life
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A Cringe-inspired event where adults read from the embarrassing writings spawned from their juvenile minds.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:18:24
Late Onset Fatherhood
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
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Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: The Carol of the Bells
From: Spokane Public Radio
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The Salvation Army bell ringer, bundled up to stay warm in weather that has turned brutal overnight, stands just beside the front door of the busy ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:01
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Cold comfort
From: Spokane Public Radio
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This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: The power of pink
From: Spokane Public Radio
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October is breast cancer awareness month.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1

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