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This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
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This weeks episode features friends from New Orleans ~ Preservation Hall Jazz Band with an opening set by our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMSU, KALH, KPIP-LP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
There is a demand in this country that corporations acknowledge that they are not people. Until corporations wake up one morning, and say, “I‘m r...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
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Destination DIY host Julie Sabatier tells a story live on stage about that time she cooked potatoes for her Idaho in-laws.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Along the road, stretches from Louisville to New Mexico, there are moments that never live up to the pictures we take. But they're what we always s...

Bought by KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 11:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Corinna, 16, got into so much trouble that her parents told her she needed to pack her bags. So she did.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2014
  • Length: 05:36
Caption: DANCE music you can LISTEN to.
The best of what's new in Electronica, Deep House, Indie Dance/Nu Disco, Drum & Bass, House, Tech House, and Techno. Plus, Mongo Speaks!

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
"We had a final discussion early in our marriage. ... He said, 'Are you sure?' I said, 'I am, my dear.' And we've never looked back." -Beverly, 72,...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:21
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"My sense has been that most men ultimately really do want children, and I think many of longer relationships -- that's been part of the end." -Bet...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
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Christina Brown, AKA The Northern Cheapskate, presents an essay talking about cheap gas prices.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
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A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.

Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 7
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For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we revisit best-selling memoirist and fiction writer, Anchee Min. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Courageous Endeavors, Credit: Bryan Belcher
It's the first Courageous Endeavors CD, and they're showcasing songs from the CD at the Ice House in Minneapolis, Friday night May 9 at 11 PM

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Regularly published in NEW LETTERS magazine, as well as in other journals and newspapers nationwide, Robert Day discusses his two most recent works...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On Thursday, February 13th, the lobby of the Winona County History Center was packed full of eager people waiting to hear love poems penned and del...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A story that Zack didn't get to tell at the Moth, live in Chicago: The summer Zack was thirteen he got up the courage to talk to the girl across th...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:27
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
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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: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
Caption: Anirvan & Barnali during a tour, Credit: Sandip Roy
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Organic Path: Two teens explore an unusual vocation that inspires new options for their future.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The parades and camaraderie of the Fourth of July celebrate freedom. This nation-wide celebration doesn't mean that the freedoms we have can’t be...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
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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: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:11