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The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat : Bill Caldwell - "Dog Days"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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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: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Sebastian Junger and Doug Stanton
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Journalist, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, Credit: John Russell
Journalist, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, who’s traveled to some of the most dangerous places on earth, reflects on the art of storytellin...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: The Great America in Writing - Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Jimmy Breslin in his Manhattan home.
This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Financial & Existential Futures - Robert Reich and Daniel Kehlmann
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Financial and then existential angles on the dizziness we're feeling. First, Robert Reich, the Democratic policy man, says we're confused about the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
John Irving Interview
From: Jane Lindholm
Caption: Jane Lindholm and John Irving, Credit: Sarah Ashworth
Vermont Public Radio's Jane Lindholm sits down for a wide-ranging interview with novelist John Irving at his home in Vermont. Short and long versio...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 46:43
OPEN SOURCE: Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler - What We Read
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon, first in conversation with Harold Bloom on Walt Whitman and the state of the humanities today -- then in conversation with Helen...

Bought by WEOS, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
"The Hand of God"
From: Elizabeth Austen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Poet Emily Warn reading her poem, "The Hand of God," with commentary by literary producer Elizabeth Austen.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:19
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
The Pride
From: Matt Gajewski
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30
Show 5: Ballads, Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Fate in Dylan's Long Ballads

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
"Leo speeds up when he sees a yard sale."(B)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Sometimes we look for secrets, sometimes the secrets find us.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 17:22
"He changed his mind..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Welcome to that place that stands between us and sleep.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
"Pick up."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The light is flashing on your answering machine. Pick up.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Lumberyard: A Radio Magazine of Poetry, Prose and Music (2:11)
From: Ken Cormier
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Poems from Phillis Levin, Clayton Eshleman, Penelope Pelizzon, and more!

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Oct 03, 2007
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
"One side is windy, the other is not."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
From: Miranda Diboll
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How the media simplify a life though obituaries or even just a few simple lines.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
"I think it went well."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The meeting went well. Didn't it?

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
"I saw the obituary while I was recycling the newspapers."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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A cold, rainy, winter night in Los Angeles and a friend comes over late to see you. There's something she needs to talk about. You give her a gla...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 1
"This is how the story was told to me." (V2.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
"Note the relationship between the two seated figures in the booth."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Life is a work of art. All you need is an observer at your side, someone to explain the living canvases all around you.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 1