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From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich

How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT

Non-RomCom

From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes

NON-ROMCOM features two short plays by young female playwrights. Both Patricia Cotter's RULES OF COMEDY and Chiara Atik's 52ND TO BOWERY TO COBBLE ...

Bought by KUNM

Happy Family

From: Roy Schreiber

Inspired by actual events, Happy Family tells the story of a group of working women in the 1970s who sued a major corporation for equal pay and equ...

Bought by KUNM

Jim

From: Josephine Halbert

Caption: Jim, A radio play by Josephine Halbert, Credit: original drawing by Josephine Halbert

The story of a 1960s transatlantic 'rock and roll' romance, created for radio. Laura remembers her love affair with Jim, a well known American rock...

Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Lisa See and her “China Dolls”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Author Isabel Allende's first crime novel: Ripper

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

A Chilean-born author, Isabel is best known for her novels and memoirs. But now, after deciding not to retire from writing books after all, she's ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio

"The Joe Bev Valentine Treat" (One Hour Special)

From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Valentine Programming

A charming hour of stories about love, hosted by Joe Bevilacqua

Author Amy Tan and “The Valley of Amazement”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Crime novelist Sophie Hannah and "Kind of Cruel"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

The Sweetest Meat

From: Damian Biniek

A cannibal finds that she no longer has the appetite for the things she used to. The Sweetest Meat was produced by Damian Biniek and Rachel Lyon f...

Afropolitan Taiye Selasi and "Ghana Must Go"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

This debut novel opens up in west Africa with a death and is a portrait of a modern family. Listen in for Taiye’s timely comments on the biggest m...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

The Witches of Lublin

From: Sue Zizza

(this 58:30 program is the final version) Lublin, Poland, 1797: While they prepare for Passover, a family of Jewish women klezmer musicians struggl...

Bought by WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Catskill, KWMR and more

JULIA CHILD Presents "Lunch with Edna O'Brien"

From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child

Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...