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Caption: Andrew Nunez, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriter Andrew Nunez talks about his musical approach to Slaughterhouse Five.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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2011 National Heritage Fellow and slack key guitar master Led Kaapana talks about making music the Hawaiian way.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 27:07
Caption: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker
Musical guests Blind Pilot, Radio host Adam Klugman, Poetic force of nature Anis Mojgani.

Bought by KUOW and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
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If you say to someone the Spanish equivalent of you're giving me green hairs (me sacas canas verdes), it means that person is making you angry. In ...

Bought by WCNP-FM and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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More and more college students are getting pregnant--with burrito babies. Grant talks about new terms for "a full stomach" and other examples of ca...

Bought by WCNP-FM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, it's Linguistic True confessions! Martha and Grant take listeners' true confessions about embarrassing linguistic moments. And they make...

Bought by WCNP-FM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Is typing two spaces after a period "totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong?" Martha and Grant disagree. Also, is the language of the m...

Bought by WCNP-FM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on "A Way with Words": If you've "seen the elephant," it means you've been in combat. But why an elephant? Also, Martha and Grant discuss...

Bought by WCNP-FM


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What do the words marathon, paisley, and bikini have in common? They're all words that derive from the names of places. Martha and Grant talk topon...

Bought by WCNP-FM and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Playwright, actor, and activist Anna Deveare Smith talks about her extraordinary career and her current one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 31:01
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Ready for some crazy crossword clues? The hosts discuss some clever ones, like "Hula hoop?" (3 letters). Also, is the correct term jury-rigged or j...

Bought by WCNP-FM and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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How the Lone Ranger became a widely recognized trademark.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
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The man behind Spider Man, Stan Lee was awarded a 2008 National Medal of Arts. Like the superheroes he invented, Stan Lee is bigger than life. Chec...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:57
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English is full of unusual terms, both old (eleemosynary, favonian) and new (flyway, catio). Also, the Swahili term that means "sleep like a log," ...

Bought by KUOW, WCNP-FM, WRNC-LP, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Actress Natalie Canerday humorously remembers her first film role. A special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their ow...

Bought by KFOK-LP and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In this week's episode, "It was bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." Martha and Grant discuss their favorite first line...

Bought by WCNP-FM and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Some of the world's most famous writers had to support themselves with day jobs. Martha and Grant discuss well-known authors who toiled away at oth...

Bought by WCNP-FM, WRNC-LP, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Remember misunderstanding certain words as a child? Maybe you figured "cat burglars" only stole cats, or assumed guerrilla fighters must be angry a...

Bought by WCNP-FM and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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How much humor and personality can you pack into a 140-character update? A lot, it turns out. Martha and Grant talk about funny Twitter feeds. Also...

Bought by WCNP-FM, WRNC-LP, WRVO, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Anagrams, rebuses, cryptograms, Jumble -- Martha and Grant swap stories about the games that first made them realize that playing with words and le...

Bought by WCNP-FM, WRNC-LP, and WRVO


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mike Brody
On this episode of "The Live Feed" we feature Minneapolis based comedian Mike Brody. Mike is unique in the fact that he performs paranormal comedy ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 05:25