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Caption: Claire Zach performing with their band Wet Denim behind the Weinery in Minneapolis, Credit: Cyn Collins
Art can be an expression of many elements of the self. So what happens when your sense of self is evolving or fluid? That’s something that local ar...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 07:39
Caption: La producción teatral Fidelio de la Ópera Nacional de Washington, Credit: Courtesy of Washington National Opera
A Ruth Bader Ginsberg le encantaba la única ópera de Ludwig van Beethoven.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:38
Caption: Washington National Opera's production of "Fidelio", Credit: Courtesy of Washington National Opera
Beethoven wrote one opera, Fidelio. A 2003 production so captivated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she wrote a letter to the director.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:11
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“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Metheny grew up in a musical family, starting on trumpet at the age of eight and switching to guitar a few years later. By age 15 he was mentored b...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
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This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:02
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Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:15
Caption: "Big Time Sensuality" on MoMA's wall., Credit: Sarah Lilley
A 5-1/2 minute, sound-rich ride through the audio-guided Bjork exhibit (much lambasted in the press) at New York's Museum of Modern Art, March 8 th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 07:51
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Two young men from Cape Cod make a documentary about heroin addiction in Massachusetts -- as a way of coping with their own recovery.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Chad Simpson and Monica Berlin talk with Assistant Editor John McCarthy about the under-appreciated, rich cultu...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:27
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Sam Densmore is an artist. He's painted, made shoes, and even built custom bicycle frames. But these days he's making something different, somethin...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode will cover seven different photographic styles and elements that make each of them unique and interesting.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:49
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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In this second of a two-part series highlighting the winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to be held in Cleveland on Sept. 13th, producer...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
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Will Weaver retired from 24 years as a professor at Bemidji State University to write full time. He has published something like a dozen books, fi...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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The indigenous people from the far north of Scandinavia have endured years of abuse. Governments in the region tried their best to eliminate their...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
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“Art From Within” is the title of the March exhibit at the Bemidji Community Art Center. The exhibit features art work by Ojibwe and non-Native art...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sean Hill
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1