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Finding Hope in a Haircut
From: Anya Schultz
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My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
64 Carolyn: Dad vs The Love Boat
From: The Mortified Podcast
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A religious father refuses to let his daughter get corrupted by The Love Boat and other 80s pop culture.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 20:13
Blackberry Winter Funfest, Blackberry, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Close to Home
Caption: Blackberry Winter Funfest 2016, Credit: Grant Frashier
Grant Frashier visits the Blackberry Winter Funfest in Blackberry, MN.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 08:24
Ben Kweller: Family Tree
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
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Ben Kweller sits down with his neighbors, a local middle school student and her parents, to talk about his own family and life path.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
Sanjay's Super Team
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sanjay's Super Team, Credit: Pixar
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
THANKSGIVING POEMS: "First Thanksgiving" by Sharon Olds
From: The Poetry Foundation
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A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
TSR15-16 Gaelic Storm
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Tune in this week as host Michael Perry welcomes the world-chart-topping boys and girl ~ Gaelic Storm ~ to the Big Top stage!

Bought by KMSU, KALH, KPIP-LP, WRNC-LP, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
TSR15-09 Jason Isbell
From: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
After working as a songwriter, in 2001 at the age of 22, Isbell joined the rock band Drive-By Truckers while they toured in support of their album ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WKMS, KSRQ, WUMB, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall
From: Amy Rapp
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LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall is an autobiographical dark comedy, written and performed by "This American Life" co...

Bought by KHEN-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
TSR14-17 Pert Near Sandstone
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Minneapolis speed-grass band Pert Near Sandstone joins us for an evening on the Big Top Stage!

Bought by WRNC-LP, WDSE, Wisconsin Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 6
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On The Oscars - "The Oscars, the Year's Spectacle and Pivot Point In the Lives of Americans Without Lives."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Steve Downing : " Romance and reason aren't the mismatch that they appear to be."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Nathan Bergstedt : " Mere synapses firing? I think not."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Life on the Party Line
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Today's privacy concerns with cell phones seem trivial when we look back at the world of open telephone wires.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
Unplugging during the holidays
From: Lesley Nase
Caption: The meeting of two rivers, Credit: Lesley Nase
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 12:26
It's Not Easy Being 13
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Guido on superstitions.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
Has routine ever saved you?
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Mary Finch on superstitions.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:13
Stories from a Christmas Stocking
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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This holiday stocking is overflowing with a bounty of winter sounds and seasonal stories.

Bought by KREV-LP and KHNS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:20
  • Purchases: 2
Aaron Brown on The Shutdown
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st. Does that affect you in any way? Do you work for the state? Ar...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Brown on Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 02:46
The Last Word on Fairs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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A fair is so long so that you can get around to eat everything being offered. Eat your walleye on a stick, and then eat the stick because it's mad...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Aaron Brown on Fairs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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This is a special time of year for anyone who resides at the end of a dirt road, lives of the land, or enjoys purchasing deep fried foods from peop...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:18
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