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Decent Work and Economic Growth: UN Sustainable Goal #8
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Welcome to melodically challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Jenny Odell on Saving Time
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features., Credit: Penguin Random House
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...

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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Stephanie Land
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Stephanie Land discusses the follow-up to "Maid," her bestselling memoir, "Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education."

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Christine Byl
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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The author of "Dirt Work," Christine Byl, discusses her debut novel, "Lookout."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WETS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Working-Class Poets
From: New Letters on the Air
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The rigors and joys of work are celebrated in this special anthology program entitled WORKING CLASS POETS. B.H. Fairchild, Susan Gubernat, Robert S...

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home," written with her partn...

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
643: If Your Clothes Could Talk / 644: Why The Classics Matter, 12/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Write Question - Jess Walter
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Jess Walter discusses his new book, "The Cold Millions."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." This is part two of a two-part conv...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen Part 1
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." This is part one of a two-part conv...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Stephanie Land - 412
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sarah Newell, Communications & Campaigns Coordinator for the International Labor Rights Forum
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Sarah Newell, ILRF
Interview by Ken Winkes: Sarah discusses ILRF’s mission, how the organization works, its successes, and what lays ahead.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
Poet and New Letters Magazine Editor Robert Stewart
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Labor Day weekend, listen to Robert Stewart, the St. Louis born writer and editor of NEW LETTERS magazine, as he talks about his creative proce...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Family History Discovered: Wendell Affield and his new series The Chickenhouse Chronicles
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Wendell Affield & Katie Carter
Wendell Affield was forbidden to go into the chickenhouse. Once his mother passed away, he was able to enter. What he discovered was a treasure t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:06
"Flames of Discontent" tells story of 1916 miners' strike on the Iron Range
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Historian and author Gary Kaunonen has written a new, award-winning history of a 1916 miner's strike on the Iron Range, "Flames of Discontent." WTI...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Golden Age of Flattery (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Eva Urcia
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event o...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
The Year of Runaways
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sunjeev Sahota
The book “The year of the Runaways” was shortlisted for a Man Booker. But Sunjeev Sahota is an unlikely storyteller, he’d never read a novel until ...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Under Magnolia
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, WABE, KVSC, KENW and more


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
"Harriman V Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War" by Larry Haeg
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Larry Haeg joins us to talk about his book "Harriman V Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War" from the University of Minnesota Press. The ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 10:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Bill Caldwell - "Dog Days"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
The Beat: Danny Klecko - "124 Degrees"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Danny Klecko provides a vivid glimpse into the world of baking with a look at the camaraderie amongst bakers preparing a new batch of pastries...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat: John Thornberg - "Settling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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John Thornberg is a poet living in Chisago City, Minnesota. He is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Group of Park Rapids, and the Mulberry Street P...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
The Importance of Work
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Author Richard Ford, Credit: Sahlan Hayes
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Geoffrey Brewer of the Gallup Press and novelist Richard Ford. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wart...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1