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Two-hundred years ago, an Italian aristocrat traveled to the Northwoods of present-day Minnesota in an attempt to make a name for himself. He wante...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 06:58
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
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- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
March 1, 2022 – Should you have be very visibly gay, or if you're trans, undergo medical transition to “earn your place”?
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 13:01
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 05:14
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
To newborns, there is no discernable difference between night and day. Evening and morning blur together in this piece as Katie Marquette rocks her...
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- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 26:12
- Purchases: 1
Working with personal diary entries, Dina Elsayed and Monika Müller-Kroll take listeners on a journey through the seasons to different places in th...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
Investigating subversion - written and voiced by Emily Pratt.
Emily and I get trapped in a necropolis in São Paulo, then speak to bassists Joe Lal...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 25:31
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...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
What is this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we.
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- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.
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- Added: May 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
Regretfully, I traveled outside the levees and into the Forbidden Zone. I felt like Kurtz descending into the hellish desert of commercialism, co...
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 02:55:19
Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 05:22
A pleasant 4.1 mile hike west of the Tucson Mountains with big views.
Recorded and produced by Eb Eberlein. Join the Arizona Trails Community at ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 04:33
The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 43:39
Philip Armand explores a mysterious black dot on his nose and his parents buy him a used motorcycle.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 08:06
The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 36:05
Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 20:08
Have you ever wondered how Lake George got its name? Or who predicted the tornado of April 1886? Or even why this area hosts so many German Catholi...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 30:47
This week's presentation is a music experience unlike anything ever done before on The Appetizer Radio Show. As host D Grant Smith prepares to cele...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 59:02
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 10:09
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:00
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