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Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 03:05
Some listeners take our pleas for support quite literally!
- Added: May 11, 2013
- Length: 02:23
Please don't feed the large reptiles! An American in Vienna finds herself at the bountiful mercy of strangers; A man seeking treatment for depressi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 29:03
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
How would you react when a friend tells you they're "inspired" to join the United States Postal Service?
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 23:35
Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 07:27
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
When activist/educator Erin Wilson loses track of a borrowed computer, she's worried she'll be ridiculed by her fellow organizers for her chronic a...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 06:00
When playing with bugs became macabre Diane started inviting people on "the spectrum" to live with her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:32
An amateur ornithologist stands guard over a nest in his mailbox; A troubled teen learns to love her pet bunny after it's too late; Brother and sis...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:05
A motorcycle man on a suicide mission faces an existential crisis; A jogger stands up to a pair of armed muggers; A youngster playing in the forest...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:07
A couple buddies drinking on a clear night are freaked out by apparitions in the night sky; All's well that ends well on a South American backpacki...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:14
A Vietnam veteran recalls watching his tour buddy and a prisoner of war die at each other's hands; A young man drafted in the Korean War makes the ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 28:27
A storyteller watching an author read his work is distracted by what's going on outside on the street; A struggling college student finds comfort i...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:19
A chaplain-in-training consoles the grieving at a busy urban hospital; A master storyteller is hunted by "patriots" for his refusal to support a po...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:02
One of my very first pieces: A chronicle of my adventures doing sound for an Elvis Tribute Artist and a large gospel Church in Madison WI.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
Michael Goldberg offers his take on tasks this winter with his version of "Winter Projects." Goldberg offers up a somewhat candid look at his frust...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 04:32
On December 24th BARNEY MARTIN became our 38th island castaway. Barney is someone who leads a life in duality with one foot in the white collar wor...
- Added: Jan 09, 2013
- Length: 01:26:23
Why doesn't the Road Runner just leave? Why does he (or is it a 'she'?) keep on hanging around, being part of what appears to be a staged ritual? M...
Bought by KHSU, Public Radio Remix, and KUT
- Added: Jan 01, 2013
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 3
Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:51
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 1
