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Need some pumpkin pi to go with that leftover turkey? Jess highlights her favorite reasons to be thankful for science in this season of gratitude.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 18:00
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This episode features writer Chuck Klosterman and music from international rock group Making Movies.

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This episode features New York Times Magazine writer Jon Mooallem, chef and bar owner Jenny Nguyen, and music from singer-songwriter Laura Veirs.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: My Body Odyssey - Episode 4
"Pregnancy is no joke," Erin tells us in this body odyssey that's both deeply personal and all-too-common. Having been on bed rest with preeclampsi...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 20:39
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This episode features writer Chuck Klosterman and Making Movies.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This episode features writer Nichole Perkins, filmmaker Lucy Walker, and music from Broadway star Joshua Henry.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
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This episode features writer Jon Mooallem, chef and bar owner Jenny Nguyen, and music from singer-songwriter Laura Veirs.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This episode features podcast host Anna Sale, writer Elissa Washuta, and music from indie rocker Juliana Hatfield.

  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This episode includes writer Nichole Perkins, documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker, and music from Joshua Henry.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This episode includes comedian Cameron Esposito, writer Ross Gay, and music from indie folk trio The Lone Bellow.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Quiara Alegría Hudes
This episode includes playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, essayist Lauren Hough, and music from Black Violin.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...

  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Today’s conversations expand on the definition of the word ‘artist.’’ During Miami Art Week, artist and educator Sharon Louden, with her frequent c...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 32:20
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HOUR ONE: "New Voices In Native Writing" - Tommy Orange and Terese Mailhot are bringing a new perspective to Native American writing. But can you c...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "New Voices In Native Writing" - Tommy Orange and Terese Mailhot are bringing a new perspective to Native American writing. But can you c...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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We explore the extremes of the human voice with essayist Elena Passarello, winner of New Orleans’ annual “Stella!” scream competition, in which par...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Lisa Gray, Credit: Kari Barnaal Yearous
On this episode of, Art Beat, we visit with a local author, who received a South East Minnesota Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. She is now taki...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 32:15
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's an essay on the past as future by sci-fi cult author Thomas Page.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:12
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Two more gems from the Transom Story Workshop archive.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 22:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: View of Welch Mountain from Dickey Mountain in Thornton, NH. , Credit: Sean Hurley
We really only have one word for snow. Yes, meteorologists might talk of stellar dendrites or graupels or aggregates – but when it snows, in Engli...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
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If my daughter told me she was a boy, I don’t think I’d pick up a microphone and start recording. Of course, maybe my inclination to record would e...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Janice Sage is hosting an essay contest with her Center Lovell Inn as the award.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
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Becca doesn't have very good luck with hiking. This is the story of her two near-death experiences with hiking, set ten years apart.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:16
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The painting that changed minds in Britain at the outbreak of the American Civil War. And more...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, WTJU, and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4