You Will Eat Dust
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Woody is a Punk Rocker
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Mitch Gilliam traces the pioneering influence of Woody
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Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her
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William Z. Duncan, Tough Veteran, Kind Principal
His students adored him, but few of them would ever know that their principal, William “Burma Bill” Duncan was part
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Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers
Okie Humorist Will Rogers lambasts the culture of greed on Wall Street in 1922. This speech was most likely his address
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Warm and Fuzzy, with Some Grit
JD McPherson is a singer and guitarist with a retro sound. He grew up listening to punk music and studied video
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Wal★Mart, I Can’t Quit You
An ode to the superstore and its people. This story was produced in partnership with The Texas Observer.
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W.T. Brady Court Transcript
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to
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Under the Sea
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Tulsa’s Slow Integration
John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. He’s been
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To Write with Power
Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14th, 1912. To celebrate his one-hundred-second birthday, we're
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To Be Normal
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Elliott Heyne returned from war with permanent hearing
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Three Springs Farm
For Earth Day, we bring you a portrait of Three Springs Farm, an organic vegetable farm in Oaks, Oklahoma. Emily
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This Land Radio: Water Birth by Larina Lavergne
Birthing pools are growing in popularity. But this is the tale of a woman who was born in a kiddie pool on
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This Land Radio: Private Manning Speaks
Private First Class Bradley Manning is currently our nation's most notorious whistleblower--the man many
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This Land Radio: One Banshee and One Sunrise
Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston
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This Land Radio: My Baby Left Me
We stopped by the Harmonica Summit at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and met Brian "Hash Brown" Calloway who
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This Land Radio: Meet Your Meat
Three friends confront their meat-eating ways. They recount the day they gutted, skinned and ate the first animal
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This Land Radio: La Donna’s World
LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy.
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This Land Radio: Howdy, John Hood
We stopped by the one bar in a one-bar-town and met John Hood. John used to be addicted to gambling. Now he has
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THIS LAND RADIO: Hook Echo
With tornado season escalating in states from Oklahoma to Arkansas to Mississippi to North Carolina, This Land Radio is
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This Land Radio: Group Fitness by Roxanne Gay
This story was produced in partnership with The Oxford American. More at
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This Land Radio: Episode 9 – This Machine Comes Home
This week, Woody Guthrie visits our studio and gets us on his wavelength. Nora Guthrie asks us to dance. Dance
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This Land Radio: Episode 8 – Radio Potluck
Episode 8 - Radio Potluck This week, our friends each bring a dish. Long Haul Productions sings grace, The
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This Land Radio: Episode 7 – Teenagers
Episode Episode 7: Teenagers This week, we meet a rock star on our paper route. Fareedah Shayeb is ecstatic,
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This Land Radio: Episode 6 – Broken Down Hearted
Episode 6: Broken Down Hearted Show Description: This week, our heart is in a hole. Carol Johnson looks to a
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This Land Radio: Episode 4 – Sugar and Dirt
This week, we dig. Tom Naples combs the archives for Dust Bowl memories. Holly Wall unearths dinosaur bones in
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This Land Radio: Episode 3 – Sports!
This week, we learn the rules of the game just enough to question them. Russell Cobb tells the story of Johnny
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This Land Radio: Episode 2 – Keeping Bees
Holly Wall talks Russian steak and virgin birth. Mark Brown gets lost in a beehive. Iraq and Afghanistan war
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This Land Radio: Episode 10 – A Fork in the Road
This week, we go left or we go right. John Hood stands at the vertex and sells us a Coors. Pantoja buys a one way
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This Land Radio: Episode 1 – Where is Oklahoma?
In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we asked the question on every Oklahoman's mind: Where the heck are
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This Land Radio: David Sedaris on Aging
In 2013, writer and humorist David Sedaris released a book of essays called "Let's Explore Diabetes with
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This Land Radio: Cattle Rustling in God’s Country
Jeff Emerson's ranch was robbed a few summers back. He lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cattle.
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This Land Radio: Bobby Wants to Get In Touch
Bobby Berryhill served with the Oklahoma National Guard for 16 months in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s lived on
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This Land Radio: Bob Wills Is A Hollering Fool
Folklorist Guy Logsdon tells us about Bob Wills, the Texas cotton picker who came to Tulsa and became the
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This Land Radio: An Encounter with Bob Dylan
Jeff Martin, This Land's fiction editor, tells us about the time he met Bob Dylan behind Cain's Ballroom.
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This Land Radio: A Haircut and a Shave
Mark Clay takes us on a tour of his barber shop and gives us an old fashioned straight razor
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This Land Podcast: Punished Into Enlightenment
Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and torture.
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This Highway Life
Author Richard Higgs was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. Here, he shares the perils and isolation of the
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These Splendid Things
Blake Bailey writes biographies about writers. He's written about John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson, and
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The Queen and the King
Wanda Jackson talks about dating Elvis and becoming the Queen of Rockabilly. Hear more great stories and interviews
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The Pinball King of Stillwater
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Unemployed, broke, and hungry, radio DJ Larry Hoefling
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The Perfect Storm
THE SOUND OF OUR LAND: The Perfect Storm by thislandpress The 1930's felt like the end of the world in western
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 7: The Violinist
*** Illustration by Jeremy Luther In this episode of Imaginary Oklahoma, Emily St. John Mandel's "The Violinist"
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 6: Of All Places
Illustration by Derrick Dent In this episode, writer Lori Ostlund presents a tale about what people think about a
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 5: Drinking Games
– Illustration by William Godwin In this episode of Imaginary Oklahoma, Carolyn Parkhurst's story
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 4: Rest Stop
- Photo by Shane Brown In this episode of Imaginary Oklahoma, Liz Blood reads Caitlin Horrocks’ story of a
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 3: Stillwater
– Illustration by Michelle Duckworth In episode 3 of Imaginary Oklahoma, Matt Bondurant's mystical and
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 2: Tigers of the Oklahoma Pool Halls
– Photograph by Richard Ortega *** Episode 2 of Imaginary Oklahoma features the lovely
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 1: Tom Mix
– Illustration by Jane Radstrom. ***Episode 1 of Imaginary Oklahoma features the story Tom Mix by John
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast
What do you think about when you think about Oklahoma? Imaginary Oklahoma is a new podcast from This Land Press,
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The Green Tree Dervish
For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about trees." He's traveled all over the world photographing
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The Green Tree Dervish
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about
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The First American Music: Sterlin Harjo on “This May Be the Last Time”
Sterlin Harjo is the director and producer of a new documentary called "This May Be the Last Time." The film tells the
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The Dancing Demigod of Tulsa
Catherine Margaret "Skilly" Forsman had a beautiful body. She earned it dancing, which she began shortly after popping
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The Blues Big Time
Little Joe Mclerran is a old-fashioned bluesman. He's only 30, but he dresses like someone in a black-and-white movie:
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The Bigheart Times
Louise Red Corn never wanted to own a newspaper. She liked the reporting end of journalism. But after moving to Osage
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The Baby in his Lap
Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting
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Ten Years on the Prairie
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Richard Higgs and Dennis Bires trek out to the Osage
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Stringtown Prison Blues
Former inmates and activist Mary McAnally read "Stringtown Prison Blues" and discuss their experiences with the penal
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Steve Almond Imagines Oklahoma, Youth
Author Steve Almond reads his short story about Oklahoma, "Jeff Keith, Lead Singer of Tesla, Considers
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Spare Me Yellow Skies
This past July was the hottest month ever on record for Oklahoma, or any other state for that matter. Farmers and
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Soul of a Man
One of This Land Radio's best podcasts of 2013. While in Tulsa for the opening of the Woody Guthrie Center,
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Sometimes God is a Frog Puppet
Steve Smith calls himself the clown sandwich between two ministers. Both his father and his son preach. Early in life,
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So Long, Max
Richard Higgs tells the story of his dog Max, who he lost on a shopping trip to Dallas. Music "The Soul Leaves the
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So Long Tim Lannom
Tim Lannom loved big houses and historic houses. He owned multiple properties around Tulsa and spent his time restoring
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So Long Johnny Cale
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. J.J. Cale wrote hits for Eric Clapton and Waylon
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So Long Joe Brainard
John Brainard remembers his brother Joe, a Tulsa-born artist who befriended Frank O' Hara, Andy Warhol, John Ashbery,
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Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean, of "Dead Man Walking" fame, discusses her spiritual awakening and the problems she has with how
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Senator David Holt Reads Shakespeare
Listen to Senator David Holt, representative of the 30th District of Oklahoma, read Shakespeare's Sonnet 46 at the 2012
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Scott Raffe
Scott Raffe is known around the world for his fine art photographs of Circus Flora and Zoppe, an Italian Family
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Sam I Ham
Broadway star and Sand Springs native Sam Harris comes to terms with his four-year-old's messes, boo-boos, monster
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Ron Padgett Reads “Driveway”
When Ron Padgett heard the poetry to the people segment on his poem "Driveway," he told This Land Press that,
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Roger Swift, Barbershop Singer & Jazz Afficianado
If you look into the life and career of Roger B. Swift, you’ll a man of skill and accomplishment. He was a US Navy
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Robert Lucy, Committed Teacher
Community college occupies a strange place in our culture—it’s sort of an academic Limbo, a time and experience
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Robert Coffey, Pediatrician
Photo: Bishop Rick Hollingsworth, with photo of Robert Coffey, MD. Dr. Robert Coffey was friendly and caring just like
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Robert “Dr. Bob” Aikman, Obstetrician
With an estimated 27,000 baby deliveries during his career as a Tulsa obstetrician, it’s hard to believe that Robert
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Richard Belcher, Air Traffic Controller
Air traffic controllers are famously subjected to tremendous stress, but they may also be the most under-appreciated
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Rebroadcast: This Machine Comes Home
Woody Guthrie visits our studio and gets us on his wavelength. Nora Guthrie asks us to dance. Tiffany Colannino reveals
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Randy Roberts Potts Passes Through
Randy Roberts Potts is known as the gay grandson of the late televangelist and university founder Oral Roberts. In
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Racing Around the World
Jack Seehafer spent almost a decade as a professional cyclist before becoming a coach for Team Type
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Racing Around the World
Jack Seehafer grew up bike racing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to Colorado to coach for Team Type 1. Here, Jack shares
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Professor B Looney
Early in life, Steve Smith started working as a chaplain in a children’s hospital. But he quickly began transforming
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Poietry To The People: Coming Home by Ken Hada
People around Oklahoma read a poem by Ken Hada. Read more poetry. MusicAutumn Sunset by Jason
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Poetry from Prison
Mary McAnally once led a poetry workshop for inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Oklahoma. Here, she discusses
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Plane Wreck at Los Gatos: Finding Woody’s Deportees
What do you call someone who breaks the law by crossing the border into the United States? An illegal? An alien?
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Plain Terror
Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900's, Oklahoma had an active leftist
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Pepper Spray: Preventative or Excessive?
The Tulsa Police Department has been using pepper spray since the '90s, but the device made headlines earlier this
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Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone has been criss-crossing the country performing as a stand-up comic since she was in her late teens. As
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ORU History Professor Reenacts W.T. Brady
You might say that Dr. Paul Vickery channels spirits. Besides his long career as a history professor at Oral Roberts
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Oral Roberts, Televangelist and University Founder
Tributes to Oral Roberts flooded the airwaves after his passing. His son Richard said that he received hundreds of
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One Banshee & One Sunrise
Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston Avenue. In
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Oklahoma Lineman
Hurricane Sаndу brоught tоgеthеr a unique соmbіnаtіоn оf wеаthеr thаt rеѕultеd in over 6 million
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Oklahoma is Cooler than Ohio
When New York City author Ginger Strand passed through Tulsa, we sat her down and asked what she thought about our
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Oklahoma Arms Show
Federally licensed gun dealers are required to screen people before they can sell them a gun. If the person ends up
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Okie Noodling and Fat-Fried Catfish
Hand fishing, grabbling, or noodling is something that Gary Altizer knows plenty about. After all, he is a proud 4th
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Okie Environmentalism
Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment.
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Oh, Paperboy!
Matt O’Meilia was an aspiring musician and had a neighborhood paper route. Then, a rock star moved in next door: Leon
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Occupying Civil Disobedience
Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center gave Oklahoma public schools a failing grade in instruction about
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O.T. “Lucky” Lane, Boxer and Navy Seaman
You might think someone with a nickname like “Lucky” had won the lottery or survived a plane crash. Or perhaps it
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