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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
This Thanksgiving, meet the people who run Central Library's café and get a peak into their kitchen on the Library's third floor, where fourteen st...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 12:41
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
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
In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...
Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 27:27
- Purchases: 2
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
Working with personal diary entries, Dina Elsayed and Monika Müller-Kroll take listeners on a journey through the seasons to different places in th...
Bought by KMXT and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
Jakob Lewis and his wife Catherine transformed their front yard in Nashville into a garden. From conception to harvest, Jakob meditates on the less...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Dec 31, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Mary McLaughlin went home to run her family business once her children were grown. Then she moved down the street from her adult children. Listen...
- Added: Sep 05, 2016
- Length: 28:29
Often imitated, but never duplicated, the "Jucy Lucy" is a Minneapolis food favorite. In this piece, learn the backstory and true mark of this icon...
- Added: Sep 28, 2014
- Length: 03:58
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
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
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In her essay, "Gifts," Finch shares the story of one of...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Song, poetry, and prose for our moms on Mother's Day.
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 47:59
Jesus, in this narrative, emerges from the shadows to walk in a world peopled by simple hard-working men in a town called Nazareth. A town where a ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 48:58
Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 28, 2006
- Length: 06:03
A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
David Engwitch author of Mental Speed Bumps explains how the street activity of Halloween is just what we need to calm traffic.
- Added: Oct 29, 2005
- Length: 02:00
Wilma and her son on bicycling
- Added: Apr 02, 2004
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 4
