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MN Reads: "In the Company of Grace" by Jody Lulich
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author and veterinarian Jody Lulich talks about his new memoir In the Company of Grace

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 09:33
729: To All The Dogs We've Loved / 730: Skill Vs. Luck, 10/1/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Newberry Medal-winning children's writer Lois Lowry
From: New Letters on the Air
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Newbery Award-winning children's author Lois Lowry, talks about her book for young people, THE GIVER. One of the most challenged books in American ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, WNJR, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Pulitzer Prize Winner Leonard Pitts Jr.
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - A Memoir About Autism, Cascatelli's Invention, and Family Dialects
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A memoir about autism written by a mother and daughter. Topic 2: The Story of Cascatelli's Invention. Topic 3: Familylect; the dialect you...

Bought by KSTK, WYAP, KOWS, RADIOLEX, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 51:38
  • Purchases: 5
537: Rethinking The Holidays / 538: Writing Truth And Lies, 11/28/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - The holidays are looking different this year. But maybe there's an opportunity in there, too. HOUR TWO: "Wr...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
WoodSongs 822: Jewel
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Jewel for the full hour.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes multi-platinum singer-songwriter, poet and actress Jewel.

Bought by WVRU, WVTF, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN, KUAR and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 41
Trauma and a Turning Point: Meet Simon, part-I
From: Kirk Klocke
Series: Sessions by Not Quite Sunday
Caption: Simon Calder Part-I, Credit: Kirk Klocke
An adjunct professor from England changes his life course after nearly dying in a brutal assault and robbery.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 39:47
363: Center Of The World / 364: Why The Classics Matter, 3/30/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
279: When Women Rule / 280: Burnout, 6/9/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "When Women Rule" - From Homer to Harvey Weinstein, women are reclaiming the classics in the age of #MeToo. HOUR TWO: "Burnout" - Ever ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
New book offers road map to happiness by looking to dog behavior
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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What can we learn from our furry friends about being happier? Plenty, it turns out, as you'll hear in this great conversation WTIP's CJ Heithoff ha...

  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 23:01
"Citizen Swain: Tales from a Minnesota Life" by Thomas H. Swain
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Tom H. Swain's long career spanned the spheres of politics, education, and business. But for decades, even long past retirement, he has also serve...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Nonviolent Life, Happiness & Chasing the Moon Thieves (Peace Talks Radio)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: The Nonviolent Life by John Dear
Three authors talk about how their books relate to peacemaking. The Nonviolent Life by John Dear, Before Happiness by Shawn Achor and Princess Mari...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Aspen Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Nonviolent Life, Happiness & Chasing The Moon Thieves (Peace Talks Radio)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Three authors talk about how their books relate to peacemaking. The Nonviolent Life by John Dear, Before Happiness by Shawn Achor and Princess Mari...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Catcher In The Rye. Rediscover Your Inner Holden Caulfield: Simple Rediscovery #505
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover The Catcher in the Rye and see if, somewhere swimming just below the surface, your inner Holden Caulfield is still alive and kicking. If...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
The Beat : Cheryl Wilke - "SeaCrow"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Cheryl Wilke was born and raised on the prairie in small town central Minnesota. She's been published in The Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
These are original stories told by a badly crippled 13 year old girl to her friends and neighbors.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:03:10
Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursion...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Craig Lancaster: 600 Hours of Edward
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Craig Lancaster wrote 600 HOURS OF EDWARD, which is his first novel, during National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which writers are chal...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is... A Season of Unlikely Happiness, by Laura Munson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Laura Munson, Credit: Heidi Long
Laura Munson is the author of 14 unpublished novels and one memoir, which was published almost immediately after she wrote it. This is Not The Stor...

Bought by KWMR, WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Home from the Inside Out
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
Caption: Tina Huang, actress
Home Watch

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:36
Down the rabbit hole with Maggie Sefton
From: KRFC
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview with Maggie Sefton - author of knitting mysteries

  • Added: Mar 09, 2007
  • Length: 29:06
Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves
From: Sedge Thomson
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Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 19