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Shelf Discovery: The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows three different women as they find safety in books in The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan.

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
2419: The Legacy of Freud, 5/7/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
Byzantine Chant
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
Clean Energy U.N. SDG #7
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
United We Stand: Telling Our Story (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Enya Cid moved from Mexico to the U.S. as a three year old. She says this country is her home, but her right to stay here never feels certain.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KICI Iowa City, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
United We Stand: Telling Our Story (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Enya Cid moved from Mexico to the U.S. as a three year old. She says this country is her home, but her right to stay here never feels certain.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
United We Stand: Telling Our Story (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Enya Cid moved from Mexico to the U.S. as a three year old. She says this country is her home, but her right to stay here never feels certain.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KEDT


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
United We Stand: Telling Our Story (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Enya Cid moved from Mexico to the U.S. as a three year old. She says this country is her home, but her right to stay here never feels certain.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Pretending to be Proper
From: KMUW
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We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Apple Seed - Looking For His Luck
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, you know if you're like me every once in a while, you wish you were more lucky than you are. But the truth is, luc...

Bought by WVPE, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 5
603: Sloane Crosley, Roz Chast, and Black Belt Eagle Scout, 3/8/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features writer Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker Roz Chast, and Black Belt Eagle Scout.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
MN Reads: "Traveling in Wonder" by Autumn Carolynn
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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World traveler, author, and photographer Autumn Carolynn talks about her new book "Traveling in Wonder"

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 07:24
From Cooking to Muddy Water!
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN shares the yummy and muddy details of upcoming events....with a...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 12:46
UNITED NATIONS GOAL #5 GENDER EQUALITY
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Shelf Discovery: Chasing Endless Summer (Sutherland #2) by V. C. Andrews
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a teenage girl as she struggles to find a place to call home in Chasing Endless Summer, the second ...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Author Danielle Evans: Dealing with History through Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 7
Sonnets & Songs
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Sonnets and poetic songs set to a variety of music.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:01:23
David Bowie
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
602: Maria Bamford and Isabeau Waia'u Walker, 3/1/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features comedian Maria Bamford and music from singer-songwriter Isabeau Waia'u Walker.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Write Question - Arnold "Smoke" Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss Smoke’s memoir, “Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.”

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sticky, Tricky Grammar Moments
From: KMUW
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We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes, we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Leap Day Special: Gardening Can Be Murder, with Marta McDowell
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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Most gardeners know the somewhat gruesome pleasure of working in the garden – with a sharp tool, or a poisonous plant, or ankle deep in a juicy sce...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates author Mat Johnson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Mat Johnson takes a satirical look at race and identity.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, and KVSC


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: This Disaster Loves You by Richard Roper
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a pub owner’s quest to find his missing wife in This Disaster Loves You by Richard Roper.

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Hal Higdon discusses "Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28

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