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- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 03:03
Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 10:26
Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator, has left an indelible mark on the scientific and literary worlds. His ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 07:42
From paintings to prints, from wood work to writing, there is no limit to what you can find at the Winona Art Walk. Hosted across the city of Winon...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 24:50
It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 03:25
Destination North Star State Radio Project is an invitation to learn more about and to explore the North Star State, and is produced by Highway 61 ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 2
Hey are you going to the big ritual, down in the grove? It's Halloween Night. And while things were pretty bad for a while, lately it has been a li...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
What happens when you live life as a tumbleweed? Beholden to no one but yourself?
What happens when an estranged parent tries to bring you back i...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 17:37
Julian struggles to read a piece about a woman visiting her sister who was admitted into a mental health hospital for being a danger to herself. Ho...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 22:26
Julian chooses his first official essay to read from the submissions choosing an essay that focuses on family. More specifically, mothers and their...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 10:29
Second part in the silent series, featuring a story about tinnitus and a story about declaring independence from internal monologue.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 20:00
- Purchases: 1
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 01:17
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 10:25
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 11:11
A charming hour of stories about love, hosted by Joe Bevilacqua
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 59:31
Imagination is the seed of empathy – a centrally important function – and both the gift and burden of the writer. Here The Gift series producer St...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Do we really understand metaphor? How much do we really engage with our world metaphorically? We all have days when a cup is just a cup, a tree is ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
In an interview with The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel, writer Lois Lowry talked about memory. In her novel, The Giver, one person holds the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 06:13
Chicago is home to many organizations that help young people to express themsleves, including Young Chicago Authors, After School Matters, Street-L...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 03:33
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 04:17
A brief program synopsis :
This is an audio piece describing the life of a typical male in the western world. From womb to tomb.
This is my first...
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 24:40
Find out what's for sale in the local paper!
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 01:42
Dan Sinykin very cleanly illuminates the strength and appeal of this new novel from published by Graywolf Press and written by Per Petterson called...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 2