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Kyle Zimmer and First Book: Delivering Literacy to Children in Need
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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In 1992, Kyle Zimmer, then a practicing attorney, was volunteering at a soup kitchen in Washington, DC. Realizing that the kids she was working wit...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 30:25
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WCNY, KTOO, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - The hidden messages scrawled in library books

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Nicholas Kardaras, GLOW KIDS: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids
From: Francesca Rheannon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We spend the hour on an issue that should concern every parent: the growing evidence that the dominance of digital tech is threatening our kids’ de...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
David Shannon & his latest fowl adventure, “Duck On A Tractor”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This popular and prolific children’s picture book creator takes Duck of barnyard fame to the next level—driving the farmer’s tractor. David talks a...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
The Little Prince and His Imaginary Rose: Her Imaginary Care and The Proprietary Life
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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I’m not sure how one marries the  proprietary "I give the right to life”  to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 06:17
Monsters in the Classroom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Why Gothic literature is more popular than ever with young kids. -How creating 'monsters' in the classroom can help young students learn and grow....

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KEDT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Like Power for Children: Presidential Politics for the Smallest
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...

  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 03:14
Harrell Fletcher: Art as Social Practice
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: First-grade docents at Portland's King School, Credit: Courtesy of harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher shares his passion for social practice—creative projects in communities that are by, for, and of the residents.

Bought by WABE, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Marching the Alcotts: "We Really Lived Most of It"
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning biographer John Matteson whose The Annotated Little Women was published last month. Alcott’s often autobiograph...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
Where Did You Come From? (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An in interview with the band, David Wax Museum, also a live in studio performance. Also: An interview with the authors of "Balancing the Big Stuff...

Bought by WJCT, WXDU, KRDP, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Travel Photography, Patricia Cornwell, Children's Museum, David Rockefeller, Jr.
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Courtesy of The Photographing Tourist, Credit: David Noyes
Explore social responsibility through travel photography, crime writing, science and water conservation.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:55
18: Redefining Equality--Anne-Marie Slaughter and Simone Marean, Girls Leadership
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Anne-Marie Slaughter
Our guests are Anne-Marie Slaughter, the author of "Unfinished Business" (and the infamous Atlantic article "Why Women Still Can't Have It All"), a...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSJD, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Crayons have feelings? Drew Daywalt and "The Day the Crayons Came Home"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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His box of crayons on his desk inspired Drew's first book, "The Day the Crayons Quit." His parents' generosity served as the bedrock for his latest...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Sex Education You Wish You Had
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, Credit: Host, Senior Producer
Show #81 Hour 2 April 18, 2015 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
  • Purchases: 2
Mary had a little lamb
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Remember That One Time...
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: A day in the park, Credit: Bryce Ellis
Molly Anderson and Bryce Ellis explore the childhood memory!

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
La Crosse is the Creator's Game
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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La Crosse used to be an exclusive sport played at prep schools, but for years its been gaining in popularity around the country. KFAI producer Alli...

Bought by KSRQ and WDSE


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Slam!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: DC Youth Slam Team
The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together wit...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KGNU Community Radio, and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 -- Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Dean Deblois, and Bonnie Arnold Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Bonnie Arnold, Jay Baruchel, Dean Deblois & America Ferrara, San Francisco, CA, 6/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Dean Deblois, and Bonnie Arnold talk falling objects, unlikely damsels in distress, and why it’s a three-year wait b...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:26
Creature Adventurer Chris Kratt
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Kratt
If you have or even know any kids between the ages of 4 and 16, you may have heard of this week’s guest. Today on Sea Change Radio we are talking w...

Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff -- MR. PEABODY AND SHERMAN
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff, San Francisco, CA 2/21/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rob MInkoff and Tiffany Ward talk waking up in a cold sweat, restoring Mona Lisa’s eyebrows, and why the cantaloupe really is the lowest of the fru...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 07:50