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Doing stand-up comedy isn’t easy for most human beings. So...what’s it like for comedians who have a disability like cerebral palsy, amputations, o...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: Kinetic Sculpture Race Contestant
We're revisiting one of my favorite interviews: from 2013--Behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and scien...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Two episodes that might challenge your perspective on what it means to be a cowboy.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Writer John Elizabeth Stintzi discusses their brand new novel, "My Volcano."

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Fiction writer Charles Baxter reveals some of his motivations for writing short stories and novels. In this interview in front of an audience at th...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We revisit an episode from 2019. In this episode, rockstar author and freelance photographer Chris La Tray digs in to his book, "One-Sentence Journ...

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


  • Added: Oct 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

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


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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We meet the god Odum who says he can clean up the filth and pollution in Jamestown if we give him 2 million cedis. We bargain him down to 1 million...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 23:57
Caption: 'The Outcast', Credit: Botticelli
This program explores the fables of a great renaissance author, Bartolomeo Scala. It is a spoken word tribute of 5 minutes in length, and part of t...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Dan May, Credit: Dan May Facebook
Singer-songwriter Dan May’s career path has taken more twists and turns than a corkscrew in a hurricane. He has worked as a grave-digger, televisio...

  • Added: May 05, 2019
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: from The Ancient of Days, Credit: William Blake
Actor and writer Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), director Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World), and voice-over master Peter Coyote (Ken Burn...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:02:18
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In this audio piece, among other things, we learn how she joined The New Yorker’s staff and how her illustrations are infused with a particular kin...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:26
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:15
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Comic Books and Super Heroes” is the theme of our episode of “Over the Back Fence” Community Variety Show from Lanesboro MN’s St. Mane Theatre. You...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:14:55
Caption: Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan stars in Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet. A professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone; “The ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 39:50
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In this episode of "Street Economy," radio producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz go to the streets in search of poetry -- literal poetry, not a...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:21
Caption: David Hennessey performs "The Monster Mash", Credit: Adam Wiltgen from Lanesboro Arts
On this episode of The Live Feed, we bring you Over The Back Fence - a community variety show recorded at The St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro MN in f...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:08:53
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Colin Meloy says he wishes he would have never used the word "hiatus" when referring to his band The Decemberists taking time off after The King Is...

Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Joe Wilson at the Henderson Festival, 2014, Credit: Ginger Correll
2001 National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture.

Bought by WNJR, WABE, WMMT, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Courtesy of POW! Entertainment
Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange: Stan Lee was there at the creation

Bought by WKMS, WLPR , KICI Iowa City, KUPR low power FM, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Kati Texas, Credit: Terrance McNally
Kati Texas takes us behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship where art and science go to play.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Jesse Parent, Photographer Isadora Kosofsky. Music: Jimmy Rankin

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 57:40
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we bring you the best of The 2013 Over The Back Fence Season. Over the Back Fence is a community variety show th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Carla Anderson (right), Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby podcasts from Balance Hair Salon in downtown Jersey City, while lounging in one of the shop’s large, adjustable chairs, with Carla Anderson, ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:12:57
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4 min piece on Midland Community Theater and the volunteers that make it happen

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:54