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For death inspector Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her to...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:35
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Emily Oakley brought Mike Appel to her native Oklahoma to start Three Springs Farm, an organic vegetable farm, in Oaks, Oklahoma. The two met in an...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:24
  • Purchases: 2
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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...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:14
  • Purchases: 2
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Joanne Hearst-Castro, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, passed away in late 2011. Hearst-Castro was a resident of Tulsa and maintained ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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While researching a book, author Richard Hicks was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. He shares the unique perspective that truckers have ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:04
  • Purchases: 2
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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...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Kelly Kurt discusses her experience covering executions in Oklahoma during her time as a reporter for the Associated Press. She worked for the wire...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:48
  • Purchases: 1
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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.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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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: 00:03:47
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A little over a year ago, three friends confronted their meat eating ways by participating in a field dressing class put on by Women in the Outdoor...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:52
  • Purchases: 2
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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 ...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Former inmates and activist Mary McAnally read "Stringtown Prison Blues" and discuss their experiences with the penal system. Full transcript of po...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:37
  • Purchases: 1
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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: 00:03:46
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In the late 1970's, Mary McAnally led a poetry workshop for the inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Okla. She taught at the prison twice a ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:10:10
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Mary McAnally shares the story of how she organized the only Freedom Bus from Oklahoma during the Civil Rights Movement. She went with 40 Universit...

Bought by KUOW, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:06
  • Purchases: 3
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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...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photo courtesy Jim Chlebda
Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her family, left Oklahoma for Califor...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:07
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Alan Heathcock reads us his story "Streetlamps" from our Imaginary Oklahoma series and explains the family history behind the unusual coupling in h...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Odom family: Mrs. Odom, pictured back right, had all of her children(except one) delivered by midwife Ruth Cobb (center). In this photo, Ruth holds the most recent addition to the family--another baby she brought into the world., Credit: Ruth Cobb
Ruth Cobb, a midwife who has been practicing in Oklahoma for more than 35 years, shares stories of her journey to midwifery and regales us with hai...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:33
  • Purchases: 1
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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 WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:17
  • Purchases: 3
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Hand fishing, grabbling, or noodling is something that Gary Altizer knows plenty about. After all, he is a proud 4th generation noodler. Listen a...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:24
  • Purchases: 2
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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: 00:02:17
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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 Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WFPL News


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:12
  • Purchases: 3