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Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian Reggie Watts, Musician and Author Josh Ritter, Radio Talk Show Host Peter Sagal and Author Sarah Vowell.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:54:58
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian Reggie Watts, Musician and Author Josh Ritter, Radio Talk Show Host Peter Sagal and Author Sarah Vowell.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Famed Author Chuck Palahniuk, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Famed Novelist Chuck Palahniuk, Author Lidia Yuknavitch, Indie rock band Blouse.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: James Richardson
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
Caption: Kirsten Wasson, Credit: Joseph Kappes
02/02/12: Kirsten Wasson is a poet who grew up in central Illinois and earned degrees from Wesleyan University, SUNY-Binghamton, and the University...

Bought by KKRN and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Wes Weddell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Wes Weddell discusses writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase, The Bushwic...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:00
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The book's entire title is 'Extremeophilia: River Rats, Timber Tramps, Biker Trash, and Realtors: New and Selected Writings' and it's a collection ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?

  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:04
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

Bought by KUOW and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Songwriter Nova Devonie discusses writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the monthly showcase Th...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:00
Caption: Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
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During this program Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland talk about the process of compiling essays and poetry from more than 60 authors from "the west...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Can philosophy and fiction both aim at universal truths of human existence?

Bought by WRNC-LP, WNJR, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Travis Yost, Caroline Keys, Gibson Hartwell, Bethany Joyce, Rick Bass
This hour-long program from Montana Public Radio features award-winning author Rick Bass reading with the Missoula-based band Stellarondo, which ha...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:12
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An audio drama overview of the places, folkways, history and realities of the Ozark region of mid-America from the early 1800's to the present.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 00:36:21
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pulitzer Prize- winning Author Isabel Wilkserson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A bricklayer considered suicide when he couldn't marry the woman he loved. Now he just remembers her when a job is going badly.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:00:31
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California is facing a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half, and it’s safe to say that the pain will be felt across public se...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:06:35
  • Purchases: 1
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During this program, Bonnie Jo Campbell talks about and reads from her novel, 'Once Upon a River,' which received a stellar review in the Washingto...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 00:28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:00