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Randy Roberts Potts is known as the gay grandson of the late televangelist and university founder Oral Roberts. In
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Randy Roberts Potts is known as the gay grandson of the late televangelist and university founder Oral Roberts. In
Abby Wendle
Terry Turner, the Intelligence Analyst Supervisor with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, discusses the
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Joanne Hearst-Castro, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, passed away in late 2011. Hearst-Castro was a
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People on the street perform Niklaus Faith's "Cardiology" and discuss the importance of one dead bug and the universal
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Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting
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In this installment of Poetry to the People, people on the street read Laura Brandenburg's chilling poem, "Back Roads,"
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For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about trees." He's traveled all over the world photographing
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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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Sister Helen Prejean, of "Dead Man Walking" fame, discusses her spiritual awakening and the problems she has with how
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For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a
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Jack Seehafer spent almost a decade as a professional cyclist before becoming a coach for Team Type
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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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In this communal reading of Ken Hada's "Coming Home," Abby Wendle gets people in the street to read his poem in their
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Steve Smith calls himself the clown sandwich between two ministers. Both his father and his son preach. Early in life,
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Ruth Cobb, a midwife who has been practicing in Oklahoma for more than 35 years, shares stories of her journey to
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Listen to Senator David Holt, representative of the 30th District of Oklahoma, read Shakespeare's Sonnet 46 at the 2012
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Producer Abby Wendle sits down with Grammy-nominated musician John Fullbright to discuss God and Oklahoma. This short
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The band SHEL is made up of four sisters from Fort Collins, Colorado. Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza Holbrook. They
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. J.J. Cale wrote hits for Eric Clapton and Waylon
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. What happens when an all-white church integrates for the
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Richard Higgs and Dennis Bires trek out to the Osage
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Poetry is transforming this space. friendly
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Elliott Heyne returned from war with permanent hearing
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Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and torture.
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Judge Kurt Glassco tells the story of his daughter Abby,
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Micah Fitzerman-Blue is an up-and-coming Hollywood
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Unemployed, broke, and hungry, radio DJ Larry Hoefling
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. A knife slicing a carrot. The toilet flushing. Bubbles.
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Janis Cramer grew up listening to her father's stories
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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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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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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. For ten years Hugh Foley attended services at Hutche
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Is the octopus a genius? A shapeshifter? An entreè?
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Mary McAnally organized the only Freedom Bus from
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Jon Mooneyham hosts a post-punk radio show and was once a
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Bishop Carlton Pearson once led one of the largest megachurches in the country. But when he stopped preaching about
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about
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American women's fear of body hair, and the pains they take to be rid of it, reveals much about our attitude toward
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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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A senior citizen finds new love at the Poteau jamboree, an old-time country, bluegrass, and gospel sing-a-long. Hear
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An Okie travels to the African mountains to see Dian Fossey's gorillas, but forgets to turn off her
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Gordy Ryan has been passing through Tulsa since the mid-80's, when one of TU's African student groups invited him to
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Singer-songwriter John Moreland talks about panic attacks, getting upstaged by midget wrestling, and opening for Jason
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Mary McAnally once led a poetry workshop for inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Oklahoma. Here, she discusses
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Rufus Newsome grew up poor and hungry in Sunflower County, Mississippi. His family couldn't afford food from the
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Danielle Schnebelen plays bass and sings in the band Trampled Under Foot. Here, she talks about a childhood of 4 a.m.
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Not a poem about jazz. A poem that is jazz. Deborah J. Hunter's "Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi" performed live in
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In the 1960s, Kate Kline abandoned normal food and an oppressive marriage for long hair and a vegetarian
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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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Tim Hernandez writes about the lives of Mexican immigrants in the United States. Here, he discusses climate change and
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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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In "Driveway," poet Ron Padgett wrestles with the city in his skin: Tulsa. We had people on the street read this poem
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John Brainard remembers his brother Joe, a Tulsa-born artist who befriended Frank O' Hara, Andy Warhol, John Ashbery,
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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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In his prime, Dana Livingston's father was an Oklahoma superhero. He lettered in four sports, drilled oil wells, and
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People on the street perform Niklaus Faith’s “Cardiology", then discuss one dead bug and the desire to move
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For Earth Day, we bring you a portrait of Three Springs Farm, an organic vegetable farm in Oaks, Oklahoma. Emily
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Andrew Gumbel co-wrote the book Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed–and Why it Still Matters (2012,
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Dr. Lewis Ziska is a plant ecologist at the United States Department of Agriculture. Ziska's work examines the effects
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Kelly Kurt Brown used to cover Oklahoma's death chamber for the Associated Press. Over the course of a few years, she
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Two musicians with Oklahoma connections, pedal steel guitarist Speedy West and drummer David Teegarden, each tell us a
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Early in life, Steve Smith started working as a chaplain in a children’s hospital. But he quickly began transforming
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A statue of the Satanic deity Baphomet may be coming to the Oklahoma State Capitol. Here, pedestrians around the
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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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"Cleaning Graves in Calvert" recounts a burial ritual in a small town in Texas. The poem prompts one reader to recall
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Ron Padgett is a poet, translator, and memoirist from Tulsa. He left for New York in 1960 to find inspiration from
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Catherine Margaret "Skilly" Forsman had a beautiful body. She earned it dancing, which she began shortly after popping
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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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Once a year, over a million bats fly to a cave in northwest Oklahoma to give birth. Natasha Ball took a trip to this
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An ode to the superstore and its people. This story was produced in partnership with The Texas Observer.
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Basses come in varying types including the striped bass, the large mouth bass, the small mouth bass, and the spotted
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Hand fishing, grabbling, or noodling is something that Gary Altizer knows plenty about. After all, he is a proud 4th
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Poet John Brehm dives beneath the chit-chat and finds his soul in the river. Read more poems. Music Cattail
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People around Oklahoma read a poem by Ken Hada. Read more poetry. MusicAutumn Sunset by Jason
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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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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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Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14th, 1912. To celebrate his one-hundred-second birthday, we're
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Jeff Martin, This Land's fiction editor, tells us about the time he met Bob Dylan behind Cain's Ballroom.
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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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Three friends confront their meat-eating ways. They recount the day they gutted, skinned and ate the first animal
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Samuel Clifton Folks has lived in Tulsa all his life. Here, he remembers playing little league baseball as a young
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. The artist Harold Stevenson is best known for his
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. In 2007, Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Adam and Eve preside at the 52nd Annual Rattlesnake Hunt
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Mark Clay takes us on a tour of his barber shop and gives us an old fashioned straight razor
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Mitch Gilliam explores Oklahoma hip hop at the intersection of social history and turntable technique. Tacos are
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Mitch Gilliam traces the pioneering influence of Woody
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave talks with Michael Mason
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Quick: what were your favorite albums of 2013? Can't
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Porter Reed is one of two former Negro League baseball players still alive today in Oklahoma. Here, he talks about
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What is this jellyfish doing in Oklahoma? Music "Napoleon Pulls Kip"- John Swihart "Bus Rider"- John
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, has always been an aviation town. In this archival interview, former airport chairman Richard Lloyd
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Wanda Jackson talks about dating Elvis and becoming the Queen of Rockabilly. Hear more great stories and interviews
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A look back at a very off-Broadway production of "Oklahoma!" Fiction by Laurie Notaro, read by Denali Gillaspie.
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Blake Bailey writes biographies about writers. He's written about John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson, and
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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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In 1955, Emma "Grandma" Gatewood became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. She was 67 years old, and
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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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Biker Fox is an exercise guru, a nature enthusiast, and a public agitator. Here's a look into his life. This podcast
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Glossolalia is an act of speech common in pentecostal and charismatic christian worship. But it's non-linguistic
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