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602: Maria Bamford and Isabeau Waia'u Walker, 3/1/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features comedian Maria Bamford and music from singer-songwriter Isabeau Waia'u Walker.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
MN Reads: "Gunflint Falling" by Cary J. Griffith
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Cary J. Griffith talks about his new book "Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters"

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 10:13
Dream Sharing and Empathy
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Does dream sharing increase empathy and insight? Today meet two English professors who say, "Yes it does!" The Science and Art of Dreaming is their...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:01
National Writers Series: Ken Follett
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Trauma Sponges" by Jeremy Norton
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Firefighter and author Jeremy Norton talks about his new book "Trauma Sponges"

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 11:55
2023-09-01 Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVTF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
230901: Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future , 9/1/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
National Writers Series: Ruth Ware
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Eric Hines talks with thriller writer Ruth Ware.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Brad Meltzer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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John Searles talks with author Brad Meltzer about his latest book "The Lightning Rod."

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Whitman and Alabama, America in Maps
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Whitman's poetry sheds light on human connections and national identity; Topic 2: How we can use maps to view American history differently.

Bought by WLRH and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Laura Kolbe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Doctor and writer Laura Kolbe talks about her new collection of poems, "Little Pharma."

Bought by WETS, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Lana Harper Gets Witchy Revenge in Her New Novel Payback's a Witch
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What do you get when you mix a revenge plot, but everyone is witches? And two of them fall for each other? You get Payback's a Witch, a sizzling, w...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 10:17
William Kotzwinkle discusses "Felonious Monk"
From: Steven Nester
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American novelist William Kotzwinkle is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Book Critics Circle award nominee, a win...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:04
Leila Slimani's New Novel: In the Country of Others
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Leila Slimani's New Novel: In the Country of Others

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 11:26
Paula Hawkins' New Thriller: A Slow Fire Burning
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Paula Hawkins' New Thriller: A Slow Fire Burning

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 10:28
International Latino Book Award-winning Poet Xánath Caraza: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month with the second part of our interview with poet Xanath (shaw-nath) Caraza, who is a finalist for the ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
MN Writer Kathleen West's 2nd Novel: "Are We There Yet?"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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"Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one suburban mom searches to find herself." What We're ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 11:28
A Post-apocalyptic Novel During a Pandemic? Yes!: David Arnold's "The Electric Kingdom."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer David Arnold. His new novel is called The Electric Kingdom. It's ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 13:11
Writer’s Voice: Anna North OUTLAWED & Emily St. John Mandel, THE GLASS HOTEL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Pin Dancing: Eliot Weinberger on Angels and Saints
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger takes us on a brief tour through the extraordinarily creative thinking concerning angels, asking do they h...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ben Lerner Discusses His Novel The Topeka Shool
From: New Letters on the Air
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MacArthur Fellow Ben Lerner discusses his third acclaimed novel, THE TOPEKA SCHOOL, winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Award. A previous pro...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The World Is One Place
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Diane Glancy
We continue Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee writers, Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez, who discuss co-editing the anthology THE WORLD ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The moon and Earth's edge, photgraphed from the International Space Station., Credit: NASA
Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10