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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
Jonathan Thompson — The day the river was orange (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes presents Part 1 of his conversation with author and journalist Jonathan Thompson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Cat's Climate
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
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How accurate was Vonnegut when he described the end of the world? We tackle climate science with climate researchers from the Scripp’s Institute of...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 24:57
The Write Question - Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle - 451
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Organic farmer, Bob Quinn discusses "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food," with his co-author, Liz Carlis...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KVNF and more


  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
MN Reads: A Forest Getting Lost in the Woods
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads has a conversation with Phyllis Root, the author of The Lost Forest, illustrated by Betsy Bowen and published in 2019 by University of Min...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 15:11
James A. McLaughlin, author of "Bearskin"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra speaks with James A. McLaughlin about his debut novel "Bearskin"

  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:05
Sean Prentiss — "Finding Abbey" — and the way back home (Part two)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes presents part 2 of his conversation with author and educator Sean Prentiss.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Fred Provenza - 368
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Fred Provenza discusses his book, "Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sean Prentiss — "Finding Abbey" — and the way back home (Part One)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with author Sean Prentiss.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
337: Endings (In Four Novellas) / 338: Thinking With Animals, 12/29/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
At the Fishhouses: The Holiday Episode
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:34
327: Religion Without Doctrine / 328: Imagining Climate Change, 11/24/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Religion Without Doctrine" - Is spiritual experience, not belief, the basis of religion? This hour, a curious look at faith. HOUR TWO:...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Gavin VanHorn: wildness where you live
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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Gavin VanHorn is the author of The Way of the Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
AMOS 19.014: Reading Literature Makes Us More Open-Minded, 1/18/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Reading Literature Makes Us More Open-Minded

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
The Write Question - Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill - 427
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill discuss the anthology, "Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place." They participated ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Ben Goldfarb - 388
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Ben Goldfarb shares his enthusiasm for the largest rodent in North America via a discussion about his book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Lives of ...

Bought by 'The Sea', Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between Speaking and Singing
From: The Organist
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Will spoken language become obsolete? What if, in the future, a simple conversation between two adults becomes a rarity, like an obscure musical pi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 37:39
The Write Question - Cai Emmons - 344
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Cai Emmons discusses her novel, "Weather Woman." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
We are measuring the river
From: Sol Rezza
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Cinco colaboradores de Radio Corax que hablan distintos idiomas (alemán, francés, árabe) junto a Sol Rezza (español) realizaron la caminata graband...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:34
Poet and Outdoorsman Dave Smith
From: New Letters on the Air
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We travel to the Virginia tidewater region with poet Dave Smith, who grew up along that coast. Though he has lived and taught elsewhere, his many b...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Roger Thompson - 333
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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What does the Italian mob have to do with the world's most rare bear population? Roger Thompson discusses his nonfiction book, "No Word for Wildern...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The EXTENDED Untold Story of Iron and Water, a New book by Minnesota Environmental Icon Grant Merritt
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s extended installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with pioneering en...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 41:49
Author Cary Griffith on writing process behind "Gunflint Burning"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Author Cary Griffith recently stopped by The Roadhouse and spoke with WTIP's Jay Andersen about his recently published book Gunflint Burning. The ...

  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 23:58
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates novelist Jennifer Haigh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:18