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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...

  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
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Welcome to melodically challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Sonnets and poetic songs set to a variety of music.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:01:23
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In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:04
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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland Welcome to another edition of melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Hippolyte Taine [Ipohleet Tehn] said “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” Welcome to anoth...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene B...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Frank Zappa said, “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some n...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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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
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Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Stanley Horowitz wrote, ”Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Welcome to another e...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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At melodically challenged, we are proud of our show’s sound, and for that we thank Rettward von Doernberg, who generously lets us use his music, B...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:07
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On Friday, June 9, the Great River Shakespeare Festival and the Winona Public Library held a Storytelling Showcase. To prep for the showcase, Great...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 38:53
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Missouri’s first Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen, sits down with Quiddity‘s Assistant Editor, John McCarthy, to discuss the importance of silence in p...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 15:32
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3