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We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously, thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about maki...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Anne Fadiman's 1998 Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
First-person commentary about using books as my "acorns" to survive the colder weather coming.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 10:47
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It’s Season 7 of the Granite City Radio Theater! SEASON 7! Seriously! What the what?!?!? We’re still the same, AND we’re different, all at the...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:46:52
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with writer, poet, and educator Peter Anderson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes a look back at the troubled, tragic, and wildly entertaining life of Carrie Fisher with the audio edi...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Staff members at WMNR contribute poems for "Words & Music".

  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 09:03
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Forever Panting by Peter De Vries

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:04
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin looks for laughs in Jennifer Worick's blog-turned-audiobook, Things I Want to Punch in the Face.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The story of a girl who was totally convinced her teenage diary would one day be discovered... and become mandatory reading for generations to come.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2016
  • Length: 16:05
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What do New York Times best-selling author, screen, TV and comic book writer, Gregg Hurwitz, and fitness icon Denise Austin have in common? As you'...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:15:53
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With a twinkle in her eye, author Amy Hill Hearth reads from Miss Dreamsville And The Lost Heiress Of Collier County, a novel about a book club com...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: A stone tablet honors author Robert Louis Stevenson
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 10:19
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Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack continues with Part 2 of KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest for Futile Fac...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 32:03
  • Purchases: 1
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
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From the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. Special guest Flash Wiley. Musical performers Johnny Hoy and The Bluefish Trio.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:26
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:48
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:38
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:20