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AG 24-21: The Songs of 1923, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We’re once again turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties on Afterglow, to hear the songs from last century that have stuck around. We’ll foc...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
MN Reads: "Impermanence" by Sue Leaf
From: WDSE
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Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:20
Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:03
Desert Trivia Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If tha...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
"Can we offer hope?": Healing in and around Sax-Zim Bog
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Camp Christopher is available for campers who have lost a loved one to suicide, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 07:54
The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous: Parables of Healing for the Environmental Movement
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Earth's temperature is rising and time is running out to change direction according to the IPCC. But veteran organizer/strategist Ben Jealous (...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
MN Reads: "Surface Displacements" by Sheila Packa
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Minnesota Book Award Finalist Sheila Packa talks about her book of poetry "Surface Displacements"

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 09:42
Holiday Episode: A Reading of "At the Fishhouses"
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 04:40
Bill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate Crisis (Release Date: 10/12/2022)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(Release Date: 10/12/2022) Hey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both? In this episode Laura sits...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Childhood, Wildhood
From: KXCI
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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 04:42
Wonderful Town, Wonderful Vine
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 05:08
Yellowstone at 150: Can Indigenous Stewardship Save Our Parks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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150 years after Congress established Yellowstone National Park, it remains the jewel of a system that comprises some 400 national parks. But for In...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Story of the Yucca Moth
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:06
Jacob Parr
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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What do House of Dow, Fowl and Fodder, Old West End Festival, The V Project, Maddie and Bella all have in common? They all have logos created by Ja...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 1
Throat Forest
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from the Sierra Nevada. The final postcard of Season 1 of Postcards from The Wind. (Start with earliest)

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
At the Fishhouses: 2019
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Each year during the holidays, longtime World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. This is a perenni...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: A heavy sea crossing the deck of the Parma (1902) , Credit: Alan John Villiers, 1933 © National Maritime Museum Collections
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
SPRING FUNDRAISER: Songs Of The Season
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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On this spring fundraising edition of Afterglow, we look at songs for the spring season, including "April In Paris," "It Might As Well Be Spring," ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio, Tri States Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, Tri States Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 48:45
  • Purchases: 5
Poet in the Field: Working Through Grief by Picking Up Litter
From: Michael Falero
Caption: Ralph Bousquet sorting microplastics, Credit: Michael Falero
It’s hard to go anywhere on Cape Cod these days and not see litter on the side of the road or on hiking trails. Local poet Ralph Bousquet has start...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Start Of Festival
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:01
Memories of a neem
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A typical neem tree, Credit: exoticflora.in
Sandip remembers a bitter part of his childhood.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
At the Fishhouses (The Holiday Episode)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At the end of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads the poem "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite is chos...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
Prose and a Poem about the Eclipse
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Looking into the Sun, Credit: Katie Carter
Many of our listeners were moved by Monday's solar eclipse. We heard from Tom Salwasser who wrote about his experience in Remer Eclipse Story and ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 10:41
This is my piece!
From: Josephine Jones
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This is my short decription.

Bought by Demo OP, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and New Enlightenment Network


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: :44
  • Purchases: 3