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Older, Middle and Younger generation guests discuss Marijuana...then, now and in the future

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
As we slide to the end of another year, that question pops up again. Is time speeding up?

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:22
Caption: Mingus RIP, Credit: Robert Vye
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Cheryl Wilke was born and raised on the prairie in small town central Minnesota. She's been published in The Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
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"Libraries must have been very noisy places, with everyone clacking away at their typewriter" thought one student recently. True story. Tom and Ro...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
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Today's text messages and yesterday's telegrams might just be pretty much the same thing, only very different. Confused? So are Tom and Ron!

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:49
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The word "whatever" doesn't seem to mean whatever it used to mean. Tom and Ron explain...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
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One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
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He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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It's essential that we raise Social Security benefits.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:19
Caption: "No Kvetching" Mug
I talk to 82 year old Midge Bemel.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
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When I first walked into the nursing home, I saw the residents as "living cadavers." Later I came to love them and celebrate their lives.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Celebrating the birthday of my 70 year old friend Louise, who is in full bloom.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A nurse must be kind and understanding

  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: :47
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This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
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And the question is: how do we lower America's horrendous highway death rate? (Attention: teens and seniors -- this column is for you!) Here's ye...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:12
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In the US your chances of being shot are relatively high.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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A former makeup artists to presidents and network anchors, Lillian Brown describes her career in getting public figures ready for their closeups.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Do all men get cranky in their old age or is it just me?

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You Already Know This

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
What can anti aging cream do for you?

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:02