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Life as a Death Investigator
From: This Land Press
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For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her...

Bought by KUT and KOSU


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Up a Poet
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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John Brehm's family didn't discuss art or literature or poetry. Searching for his own way in the world, Brehm began writing. Decades later, he is t...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Baby in His Lap
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting guns and shooting drugs for h...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
Oh, Paperboy
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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When Matt O'Meilia was 10 years old, a rock star moved into his neighborhood. And not just any rock star. A hometown boy made good. The rock star...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
One Banshee and One Sunrise
From: This Land Press
Series: The Okie Dish
Caption: Caldwell O'Keefe tending bar at his house in Tulsa, Okla., Credit: Abby Wendle
Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston Avenue. In the 1970s, O’Keefe mixed drinks...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Cardiology
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
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People on the street perform Niklaus Faith's "Cardiology" and discuss the importance of one dead bug and the universal desire to move mountains. Fu...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Her Dad, Oral Roberts
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
Caption: Roberta Roberts Potts and her father, Oral Roberts
Roberta Roberts Potts, the daughter of the late televangelist and university founder, Oral Roberts, recently published a book about her father call...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
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Deborah J. Hunter's poem "Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi" is performed live in Central Park by jazz musicians Tin Pan. Full poem below.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
David Sedaris
From: This Land Press
Series: Just Passing Through
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Author David Sedaris shoots the shit with This Land. Full transcript below.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
LaDonna's World
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy Osborn, founders of Osborn Ministries In...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Oklahoma Environmentalism
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment. Strand explains how the Arkan...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
Holla' for Challah
From: This Land Press
Series: The Okie Dish
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Rabyne Rogue, a woman converting to Judaism, gets to know the Jewish community through Challah bread baking classes every Wednesday night at B’nai ...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
Ian Frazier
From: This Land Press
Series: Just Passing Through
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Ian Frazier talks to us about his book "Travels in Siberia" and his struggle to accurately portray a foreign country.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 1
Imaginary Oklahoma: "Wailing Wall" by Deborah Willis
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine with artists to provide a fictiona...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:46
Paula Poundstone
From: This Land Press
Series: Just Passing Through
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Paula Poundstone has been criss-crossing the country performing as a stand-up comic since she was in her late teens. As a result of traveling so fr...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Gordy Ryan says Play a Drum
From: This Land Press
Series: Just Passing Through
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Gordy Ryan has been passing through Tulsa since the mid-80's when he was first invited here by an African student group at TU to give an African dr...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
Clean Dirt
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Kris Gosney and her husband were like most of their neighbors in northwestern Oklahoma: conventional farmers relying heavily on chemicals to produc...

Bought by KOSU, WAMC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 5
Building a Frog
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
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We visit a group of campers who read "Building a Frog," an evocative poem by John Wooley. With the sounds of the forest, cicadas, crickets and frog...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:17
From Weed Chopper to Community Farmer
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Rufus Newsome knows what it's like to be poor and hungry and dependent on the land. Growing up in Sunflower County, Mississippi, he chopped weeds o...

Bought by KOSU, Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WFPL News


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 4
Oral Roberts University History Professor Impersonates Tate Brady
From: This Land Press
Caption: Paul Vickery as Tate Brady performing in the Brady Theater, Tulsa, OK, Credit: Lee Roy Chapman and Field Guide Media
You might say that Dr. Paul Vickery channels spirits. Besides his long career as a history professor at Oral Roberts University, he also moonlight...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:46
So Long Tim Lannom
From: This Land Press
Series: The Short So Long
Caption: The Brady Mansion, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
Tim Lannom loved big houses and historic houses. He owned multiple properties around Tulsa and spent his time restoring and renovating them with th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
Kate Kline's Veggies and Wine
From: This Land Press
Series: The Okie Dish
Caption: Kate Kline with Casserole, Credit: Abby Wendle
Kate Kline’s eating habits are evolving - from conventional family dinners in her 1950s Tulsa childhood, to fancy teas as an officers’ wife, to veg...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
History Under Oath
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
Caption: Tate Brady, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to organizing lynch mobs - that ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:34
Plain Terror
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900s, Oklahoma had an active leftist movement. Equally active was the Ku ...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 2
So Long Scott Raffe
From: This Land Press
Series: The Short So Long
Caption: Scott Raffe, Credit: Scott Raffe
Scott Raffe is known around the world for his fine art photographs of Circus Flora and Zoppe, an Italian Family Circus. A Chicago native, Raffe fel...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:04