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Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
KBFT Native Writing Fest - Brian Malloy
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Writing Festival 2021
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KBFT Native Writing Fest Series is a Live Community Writers Event & Interview with the world's most notable writers! In this segment we meet with B...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
Carnegie's Legacy
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library bu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 31:06
  • Purchases: 1
Libraries Reimagined 1: Updated for the digital age
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Produced by David Freudberg in association with WGBH/Boston. The American Library Association reports that most libraries have re-opened, with Cove...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WVBI-LP, NPR Now, Colorado Public Radio, WAMU and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 22
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Amazing Gracie - Gracie's story, and "Forward" from the book.
From: Paul Messing
Caption: Amazing Gracie (cover)
The story behind the story of Three Dog Bakery, and how a dog with special needs brought all the elements together.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Across the Reference Desk
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 1
Weathering the Storm
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Sometimes, in the wake of natural disasters, the library becomes an information center, a shelter and a community space. We travel to Coney Island,...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 1
New Americans
From: Brooklyn Public Library
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Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 21:11
Something to Offend Everyone
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 24:17
Ramona lived in our neighborhood
From: amy handler
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Second Grade students from Portland, Oregon's Beverly Cleary Elementary School tour us around one of the sites from the famed author's childhood ho...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 10:19
Episode 49: The Editor
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Correctional Institution. In prison, Robin found ...

Bought by WFAE


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 25: Toki Pona
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 20:24
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
Boneshaker Books is a bike-centric collective
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Boneshaker Books is a collectively run, all-volunteer, progressive bookstore in the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis. It has a year round. free b...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Mood Indigo - Boris Vian, Surrealist
From: Pod Academy
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The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
The Music of Conversation
From: Hold That Thought
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Even casual conversations have surprisingly musical qualities. Linguist Brett Hyde delves into the rhythms behind language and the principles that ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 1
What are you reading? (Asked to 4th Graders)
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: 4th Grader Book Lovers
With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Kwame Dawes
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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Imagination is the seed of empathy – a centrally important function – and both the gift and burden of the writer. Here The Gift series producer St...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Stuart Dybek
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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Do we really understand metaphor? How much do we really engage with our world metaphorically? We all have days when a cup is just a cup, a tree is ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Lois Lowery
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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In an interview with The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel, writer Lois Lowry talked about memory. In her novel, The Giver, one person holds the m...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Jennifer Steele
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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Chicago is home to many organizations that help young people to express themsleves, including Young Chicago Authors, After School Matters, Street-L...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:33
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Joy Harjo
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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“When I first read Joy Harjo's poetry it was like stepping outside of my own story, my own life which narrates and puts me at the center of every e...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part II : FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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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
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part II : THE FOUR QUARTETS
From: Stanzi Vaubel
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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