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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
In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WNJR
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Washington Post reporter and new Minnesota transplant, Christopher Ingram has written a book about his family's transition from the east coast to r...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Feb 08, 2020
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 04:34
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:11
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 05:12
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 1
The Japanese word "Mottainai" refers to the essence of things, and suggests that objects do not exist in isolation, rather that they are intrinsica...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 05:31
In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 58:03
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 2
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Recounted in this installment is the life, times, and legacy of Phillis Wheatle...
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 47:29
Thoughtful commentary about the symbolic role of lights at Christmas
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 03:30
