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The Emotion Roadmap featured a show about veterans close to when we celebrated Veteran's Day in 2019. One caller talked about a veteran living in a...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:23
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:43
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
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Melissa Fletcher makes her home in the Twin Cities. Her poems and short stories have been published both locally, and nationally. The Beat is a dai...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
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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: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:13
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Pete Stringer, approaching the finish of his 212th marathon. , Credit: Photo-Chambers
Pete Stringer loves to run. Really long distance. Since he began a running log in 1976, he's run over 80,000 miles in competitions and training. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This piece is called Grey Areas and it's about how close I am to my dad, in a literal sense, it's also a tribute to the the neighbour we buried in ...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Seniors charter buses for pill buying forays into Canada

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: :38
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Age discrimination is alive and well on the Internet today

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:15
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
My legs got colder and colder until I knew I had to put on my insulated long underwear and knee-length woolly slippers

  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: :47
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When I made radio programs 30 years ago, you heard me grumbling on the air that I had made a mistake.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Because I’m old, my wife can no longer blame my crimes against the household on inattentiveness.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
For almost two years every time my wife Marsha spoke, I jumped from my chair while mumbling, “I’m coming, I’m coming,” and rushed up to wherever sh...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The people who design web pages were born after some of us were already collecting social security, so too many web sites are not user friendly for...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You have heard many sparkling wits say that growing old beats the alternative.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:17

  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: :50
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 09, 2008
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Products are obsolete before you get them out of the wrapping paper

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1