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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
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Caption: 'Salome With The Head Of John The Baptist', Credit: Titian
This 5 minute spoken word program is accompanied by renaissance music, and explores the world of the fable according to Leon Battista Alberti...a t...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Hermit Saints', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This series presents 76 separate programs of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of fables from the renaissance are explored here through spoke...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Mystical Nativity', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program explores through the spoken word the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. Part of the 76 part series here on Public Radio Exchange, th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
Caption: 'Venus And Organist And Little Dog', Credit: Titian
This program series has 76 shows each of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of the Renaissance are explored. This program, through the spoken ...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
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An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live in. With guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdne...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Eleni Sikelianos, poet
Eleni Sikelianos explores the evolution of the human body.

Bought by KUER, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:56
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When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 31:20
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Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat".

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:26
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Here we are and thus we go – upon the merry-go-round we journey so. . . Join Unbroken Circle tenali for a spellbinding look-see into the puzzling n...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:52:24
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The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:17
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Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:27
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:06
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:08
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:12
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Danger Days". The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poe...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:24