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What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:25
A Pulitzer Prize-winner for Black History Month.
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- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 18
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we travel by bicycle to the east from St. Cloud to Portland, Maine. Quentin Super is an SCSU graduat...
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 27:45
How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?
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- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 8
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...
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 27:13
- Purchases: 2
A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 3!
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 13:30
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 03:03
When you have nothing, where do you turn for warmth and comfort? Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" strikes a match and in the brief...
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 09:24
Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:23
How do you feel about your... well, eventual remains? Sealed caskets and ash-filled urns strike author Bernd Heinrich as unnatural, and this biolog...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Poet Hadara Bar-Nadav refers to many works of art in her 2012 collection THE FRAME CALLED RUIN, while in her 2013 collection, LULLABY (WITH EXIT SI...
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- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Exploring life's grand mystery, part of our 100-second readings for MAY.
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- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
When we are disparaged, ridiculed, attacked our natural response is a flight to safety to family, to friends, to tribe. But what if there's nowhere...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 53:57
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 31:33
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 13:22
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 11:31
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 18:13
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 16:44
We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:26
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
Robert Jevne gives us his thoughts on aspirations for the year including not giving into cynicism and remaining upbeat when there is much to be dow...
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- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:09
- Purchases: 1
You're surrounded by strangers on the subway. Can you hide?
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 01:34
In this Real Good Words interview Maggie Montgomery and Robert Saxton were joined in the studios of Northern Community Radio by northern Minnesota ...
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- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 2
Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 5
“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” This half-hou...
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
