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"Can we offer hope?": Healing in and around Sax-Zim Bog
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Camp Christopher is available for campers who have lost a loved one to suicide, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 07:54
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 33
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes from our Award-Winning Podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 9
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Three pieces about immigration in the American West.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #25: The Night
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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To newborns, there is no discernable difference between night and day. Evening and morning blur together in this piece as Katie Marquette rocks her...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 26:12
  • Purchases: 1
All in the Same Boat
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we bring you an abbreviated special edition of World Ocean Radio in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this edition we'll reite...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Leisure Edge: Part Four of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
Memories of a neem
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A typical neem tree, Credit: exoticflora.in
Sandip remembers a bitter part of his childhood.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Acoustic Stories: Charlie Pulkrabek - "Early"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Sugarbush Voices" an essay from Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat : Yaya Fredrickson - "Spawn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Yahya Fredrickson got his undergraduate degree from Moorehead State University, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, and his...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
Culturology: "Summer Nights, Summer Lights," an essay by Michael Forbes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Michael Forbes
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Word on Stormy Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Those yellow forks that drop from the table of heaven, they strike us to the core with their terrible power.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Aaron Brown on Stormy Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The howler monkey starts a whoopin' and a walin' in Balsam. Using some kind of funnel and a great deal of effort, one could drown in a gentle rain.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
Commentator Guido on Stormy Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Stormy weather brings out our animal instincts.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Word on Campfires
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Sparks turning into the stars; really living.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Gil Quaal on Anishinabe Food
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Phenology Show
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The late Gil Quaal shares his knowledge on Anishinabe food.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Aaron Brown on State Parks
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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MN is known for its expansive State Park system, but the northern half of the state really carries that load... Check out more in Aaron's blog ww...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:17
O Tannenbaum
From: Fitz Cahall
Caption: Snowflake, Credit: Walker Cahall
Christmas trees are a massive business. Americans spent $2.5 billion on Christmas in 2007. Outdoor writer, Fitz Cahall wasn’t among them.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:07
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Tom Niemisto
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens when kids spend too much time indoors?

  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:49
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
Rethinking Needs
From: Kyle Boelte
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The author goes into the wilderness and comes back with a new appreciation of his needs.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
Personal Thoughts about Global Warming: a commentary by Nanci Olesen
From: Nanci Olesen
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Nanci Olesen describes her attitude toward global warming. She's depressed, but she's still gonna grill chicken outside in February....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Open Letter to the President
From: Sidney Wildesmith
Caption: PRX default Piece image
WILD SIDE NEWS Host Sidney Wildesmith directs an open letter to President Bush

  • Added: Dec 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:20
Kick the Holiday Junk Habit
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ideas for slimming that holiday wasteline

  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 02:05