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On the bluffs of the Village of Mendocino, overlooking the Pacific Ocean about 155 miles north of San Francisco, California, the sounds of the Mend...
- Added: Sep 13, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Today we look at words that came from other words even though we think the second word should have come first.
- Added: Aug 08, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at language rules that are rules sometimes, and rules that don't make sense. Well, they make some sense. Whatever. They're rules, anyway.
- Added: Aug 01, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks (MN) has the scoop on books, a huge book sale, book discussion, plu...
- Added: Sep 26, 2019
- Length: 10:23
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
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents Think People host Alan Wartes spoke with bestselling fantasy and fiction writer Kevin Anderson.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 21, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin fights for the arts with a love struck administrator in Kathy Cooperman’s The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WTJU
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 45:13
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Notable books by friends and colleagues of GetPublished! Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 02:59
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
- Added: Sep 07, 2015
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 1
A take on Shakespeare's classic tragedy examining Veterans' issues and the effects of Post Traumatic Stress.
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Mar 30, 2015
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
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
After years of writing and teaching, Grand Marais poet Ralph Latham has produced a slim volume of poems. WTIP North Shore Community Radio’s Jay And...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 07:13
- Purchases: 1
Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.
- Added: Sep 20, 2013
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 5
From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 53:50
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Collins, a poet and graduate student at Duquesne University, reads a selection of her poems at the last Coffeehouse Reading event for the ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 08:26
Keeley Teslik, a graduating senior at Duquesne University, reads an excerpt from one of her short stories, and answers some questions about what it...
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 13:59
Steven Schwartz, a writer and resident professor at Colorado State University, reads his story "Seeing Miles," and answers some questions on voicin...
- Added: Apr 07, 2013
- Length: 33:34
Craig Bernier, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction (as well as a Professor of English at Duquesne University) reads his short story "Something...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:16
Heather McNaugher, a poet and professor at Chatham University, reads from her collection and answers some writer-ly questions.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 08:30
The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
