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The oud
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book by Rachel Beckles Willson, called "The Oud: An Illustrated History." This book might be the first in-...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2023
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 1
A Woman For Peace in a Book Called CHARLOTTE'S WAR by J. Lawrence Graham
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: J. Lawrence Graham
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to author J. Lawrence Graham...who's brought his own military experien...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bach Cello Suites
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about a new book that serves as a companion to the Bach cello suites. Cellist Steven Isserlis has created a great book t...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 27:09
AMOS 23-170: The Invisible World of Manuscripts, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Invisible World of Manuscripts

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
The Write Question - Bill Vaughn
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Bill Vaughn discusses his new book, "The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families."

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


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Anthony W. Wood
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."

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


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Michael Punke
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Michael Punke discusses his new novel, "Ridgeline," about the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Gretchen E. Minton
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and scholar Gretchen E. Minton discusses her book, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Write...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Kate Winkler Dawson: American Sherlock: Murder, forensics and the birth of American CSI
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Kate Winkler Dawson will tell us about the origins of forensic crime solving techniques, her new book is American Sherlock: Murder, forensics and t...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2020
  • Length: 12:54
The Witness Tree, by Amy Pendino
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Interview with Minnesota author, Amy Pendino.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 11:23
National Writers Series: Susan Orlean
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Susan Orlean talks with To the Best of Our Knowledge host Anne Strainchamps.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Nonfiction Writer Justin Martin Discusses Walt Whitman
From: New Letters on the Air
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With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Barry Babcock: The Bonga Family in MN History
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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“The stories of the Bongas, all of them, are so compelling and they’re so intertwined with early Minnesota history…at nearly every treaty that was ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 12:59
The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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"The truth behind the legend from the voices of the Lakota. The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's last stand," as it is also known, ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:40:27
The EXTENDED Untold Story of Iron and Water, a New book by Minnesota Environmental Icon Grant Merritt
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s extended installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with pioneering en...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 41:49
The Pledge of Allegiance
From: John Messmer
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A reading of the original and current version of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:12
  • Purchases: 1
Bill Schutt discusses "The Himalayan Codex"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Bill Schutt a vertebrate zoologist, college professor and author. Learn more about him at https://www.billschutt.com/.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 11:33
The Many Lives of Michelangelo
From: Hold That Thought
Caption: Michelangelo's David
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet - how can one man be so many things? And what did he keep in his basement?

Bought by KVSC and WABE


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 2
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean theme
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Wiltenbug surveys the great moments of mercy, both granted and withheld, in Shakespeare's many plays.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 15:07
How The Bard Meant It (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-How did Shakespeare's plays really sound 400 years ago. Plus: The big ideas in the plays of Shakespeare. And more….

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, Troy Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Reader's Corner featuring author Jan Jarboe Russell
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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An untold story from World War II: Author and journalist Jan Jarboe Russell discusses her book, "The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner E...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Brave Genius
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
Please Burn After Reading
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 12:39