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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a program of readings and conversation at Commerce Bank's The Box Gallery. Poets Wyatt Townley, H.C. Palmer, Brian ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:28
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The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar. A social justice driven children’s bookstore and ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 27:17
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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
Caption: Cover of the book "Can You Hear Me Now?" by Suzanne DeMallie.
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:36
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Bois Forte Band Ojibwe Author, Linda LeGarde Grover shares her stories of the Lake Vermilion Boarding School.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:11
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
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Alaska's own, Maeva Ordaz, on winning the 2015 Poetry Out Loud national title;

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:59
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Is there an invisible thread that connects humans to all life around us? Novelist Kathryn Davis explores how the fantastical world in her novel, Du...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
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When Miss Havisham, a strange but wealthy old woman asks for Pip to come play, he has no choice but to go. What he experiences changes his life and...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 20:04
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Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes travel to Stoke Moran to investigate the death of Helen Stoner’s sister… and to try and prevent history from repeati...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
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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 Adventure of the Speckled Band from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle part one, directed by Jason Merrin, composed by...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:44
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A man is driven to commit a horrible but seemingly perfect crime, only to find that 'getting away with it' is harder than it seems.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:20
Caption: Ghost Ship, Credit: Albert Pinkham Ryder
Jackie, a journalist in the 1920s, thought she'd seen it all when she boarded a ship headed where few ships dare sail.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:27
Caption: Oliver Sacks
On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 01:22:29
  • Purchases: 6
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Here we are and thus we go – unto the merry-go-round we ascend again. . . Join Unbroken Circle Tenali for a spellbinding look-see into the head scr...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:50:48
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Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 16:14
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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
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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
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Carrboro High School sophomore Carolyn Macleod credits her third grade teacher Hannah Stang with her passion for writing. They have written letters...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Carrboro High School English teacher Mackensie Malkemes and junior Ryley McGinnis, Credit: Timothy Leow
Ryley McGinnis was shy and hadn't thought much about performance poetry when she entered Mackensie Malkemes' English class at Carrboro High School,...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
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Middle school teacher Steven Simmons says he was a little overwhelmed in 2005 when he started his career at Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Chapel Hill High School English instructor Michael Irwin and senior Madison Gunning
Twelfth grader Madison Gunning has a passion for working on projects that empower young women. She says that started in Michael Irwin's English cla...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
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My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:01