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Baboons can learn to distinguish English words from nonsense letter sequences.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:00
Caption: Jason Holley-Kline
Last month, Jacob Holley-Kline went on a school trip to Greece. He had worked all of the previous summer to pay travel expenses. When he got there,...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 00:13:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Krulwich on drama, narrative voice, and the day gorilla cages changed forever.

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 00:31:47
  • Purchases: 2
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Imagine this: You’ve met a total character. She’s kind of eccentric. She has forty-one animals in her backyard and it’s not a farm. And, just abou...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:25
  • Purchases: 2
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Up Next features writers/ actors/ directors sharing insight and funny stories as they work to make their break. Guest for episode 6: Actor Bill Arm...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 00:51:20
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During this program, Mary Clearman Blew talks about the challenges of writing memoir that includes living people. She also reads passages from her ...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: pencils, Credit: courtesy asif akbar, sxc.hu
An essay praising the hand-held writing stick.

Bought by KFAI, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:54
  • Purchases: 3
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Episode thirty-two is just below, right behind that little arrow. It’s hiding there. If you don’t believe me, go ahead, click that little arrow and...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jesse Cohen discussed the best American science writing in 2010.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 00:25:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shots of pickle juice, known as "picklebacks.", Credit: Michael Williams http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkwilliams/2741757602/ used under a Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
This week on "A Way with Words," Martha and Grant talk about phrases you love to hate, like "Do you mind if I put you on hold?" They also talk abou...

Bought by WRVO


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yellow-Spotted Amazon Turtles, Credit: cliff1066™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/2854965342/ under a Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Is your beezy a tenderoni? If you're not sure what that means, find out in this chat about current college slang. Do you say something happened on ...

Bought by WRVO and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:05:30
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This week on A Way with Words: Meeting a word for the first time. If you're a language lover, then you get a little thrill whenever you encounter a...

Bought by KREV-LP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2009
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Sayana Ser was born in Cambodia in 1981, two years after the fall of dictator Pol Pot. Today, Ser works to help her country heal from that genocide...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:04:56
Caption: Shopping carts, Credit: Jay Reed http://www.flickr.com/photos/jreed/407425704/ under a CC license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Pickle, baboon, cupcake, snorkel, pumpkin, Kalamazoo -- let's face it, some words are just plain funny. But what makes some words funnier than othe...

Bought by WRNC-LP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2009
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A robot in the online game Second Life., Credit: Licensed under a Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en from Torley http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/2762228150/
Sure, there's "Grandma" and "Grampa," but there's also Gammy, Bumpy, Dadoo, Gre-Gre, Kiki, Kerkel, Monga, Nee-Nee, Pots, Rah-Rah and Woo-Woo. Marth...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:59
Caption: Mushrooms., Credit: orvalrochefort http://www.flickr.com/photos/orvalrochefort/2951787683/ used under a Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
This week on "A Way with Words": Like mushrooms in fallen leaves, new words keep popping up overnight. Also, is there an English word that means "t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and WLRN


  • Added: May 06, 2009
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Apple Core, Credit: Licensed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en from Stephen Mitchell http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenliveshere/483840217/ Adelaide, Australia
Grant and Martha explain what dog hair has to do with hangover cures. Also, where’d we ever get a word like “dude”? And what's the word for when ra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN and North Country Public Radio


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  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kiss, Credit: Ana Santos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/anasantos/3162838077/, licensed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
This week on "A Way with Words," Martha and Grant share favorite online reading. Also, listen up, grammar fans: If the subjunctive mood were to dis...

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  • Length: 00:54:00
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The story of Suzanne Knode, who at 63 discovered the storyteller within her.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 00:09:40