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2024-05-24 Staycation: All I Ever Wanted
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
240524: Staycation: All I Ever Wanted, 5/24/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
MN Reads: "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" by Georgia Finnegan
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:08
MN Reads: "The Last Supper Club" by Matthew Batt
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 08:33
Is Wokeness Killing Comedy?
From: Open to Debate
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ep. 218: Long Time Gone
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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The Life Of A Musician, Nashville, Alimony, and the Hangman in Dollar Country this week.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KIYU-FM, KSTK, and KHNS


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Poet Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-04-09 What's in a Game?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are games just a fun way to pass the time, or do they do something more for us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
Right to Recreation: The History of African American Leisure Sites
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: “Alphabet Jazz” by Paul Metsa
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Paul Metsa talks about his new book “Alphabet Jazz”

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 19:26
Story Prize-winning Author George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Something
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Musical selections from the realms of bluegrass, jazz and that slippery shapeshifting sonic continuum between having to do with *Something....*

  • Added: Nov 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:38
DIY Memoirist and Fiction Writer Ron Tanner
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Ron Tanner
Fiction writer Ron Tanner, the author of the 2022 short story collection FAR WEST,talks about the similarities between renovating a house and writi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Silver Tsunami: Challenges and Opportunities of Global Aging
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re taking a look at what economists and demographers are calling “the Silver Wave” — how the rapid aging of the world’s population wi...

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Spencer Wells– "The Peopling of the World"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
2204: A Conversation with Issa Rae & Larry Wilmore, 1/27/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week, web series creator-turned cable TV sensation Issa Rae on her journey from YouTube to HBO, her desire for diversity on television and her...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Holiday Show
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:07
Yerba Porosa
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:52
Asteraceae in the Chihuahuan Desert
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
Christmas Special (Vol.7)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Christmas lights in the Mad River Valley of Vermont, Credit: Brian Aust
An all-new, wholly unique collection of the very best Christmas bluegrass, jazz and musical expressions in between that you've probably never hear...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:40
  • Purchases: 1
Frontier Music
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about westerns and western scores.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Montevideo, Uruguay
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
OHR078: OHR Presents: “A.J. Croce: Two Generations of American Music”, 12/6/2021
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: A.J. Croce
American singer-songwriter and musical legacy A.J. Croce recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, hear A.J....

  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Coral Bells in the Hills
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:06