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Dyker Heights is a destination this time of year, with houses decked out in lights drawing visitors from all around the world. And inside Dyker Lib...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:42
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A postcard about the first day of Major League Baseball, and in my book, the first day of spring.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 32:47
  • Purchases: 1
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In honor of the discord that shows up around the Thanksgiving table, we present tales of kids who don't quite the concept of family togetherness.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 20, 2016
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Andrew Hiller
Pretty soon, you're going to start hearing warnings about the War on Christmas... Now, that battle may be hard to spot through the blinking red a...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Christina Brown, AKA The Northern Cheapskate, presents an essay talking about one of the least expensive, and most cherished gifts she's ever recei...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a funny little story about my parent's Christmas Tree lot, told from my father's perspective.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:49
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A conversation from three folks on the rituals they've created to mark the first of the year.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Photo by, Matt Callow, Flickr
Do you know why you celebrate Halloween? In this special Halloween Seeds of Sound, Gabriel Rima asks listeners to question this tradition and celeb...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRZA, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 4
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This is a narrative piece about living in a foreign country during Thanksgiving.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
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A commentary by Nanci Olesen about true love for the planet

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WEPS


  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Ideas for slimming that holiday wasteline

  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 02:05
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Special essay on living in Flanders

Bought by KMXT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KMSU, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 11