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A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
From: Jennifer March
Series: Not Your Mother's Storytime
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“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story version of her famous play, “Trifles”. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, “Alison’s House”.

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 56:33
The Sanguine Script part 3
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: The Sanguine Script
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 3!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:30
The Sanguine Script part 2
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: The Sanguine Script
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 1!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:41
The Sanguine Script part 1
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: The Sanguine Script
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 1!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:03
Life of the Law #96: Live Law San Quentin: Hope
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
SHERLOCK HOLMES The Adventure of the Speckled Band pt 2
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes travel to Stoke Moran to investigate the death of Helen Stoner’s sister… and to try and prevent history from repeati...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
Teaming Up: Two Short Comedies by Kim Merrill and Lanford Wilson
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Spin Central - Two Short Plays by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: David Auburn
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Vets and Nets
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Real Me
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Bobby Cannavale
In the comic classic, MERE MORTALS by David Ives, a construction worker reveals he is secretly, actually the Lindbergh baby. Turns out his pals hav...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Birds and the Bees
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Richard Ford
From: New Letters on the Air
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We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
During the Civil War a southern civilian is to be executed by being hung from a bridge. What happens or doesn't happen next we won't know until the...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 1
Lean & Hungry Theater Presents: Romeo And Juliet
From: Lean & Hungry Theater
Caption: Original Broadcast Promotional Art, Credit: Aaron Hansen
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in modern-day “Verona, California,” with live sound effects and some of the fines...

Bought by KUNM, WNMU-FM, KRPS, KREV-LP, KGOU and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Seller of Dreams
From: Claes Andreasson
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A sound-rich fairy tale by Henry Beston

  • Added: Oct 01, 2011
  • Length: 15:29
Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - "The Japanese Sandman"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! THE NEW STORIES OF OLD-TIME RADIO
Caption: The first NEW Cnady Matson show since the 1950s!, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - "The Japanese Sandman" by Jack French

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 46:29
Tell Me A Story: Author Performances by ZZ Packer and Julie Orringer
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: ZZ Packer, Credit: Marion Ettlinger
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 56:17
Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye To Kerouac (EDITED language version w/ ID break)
From: Sue Zizza
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida ( edited language version ) ----- for unedited explicit language version go to ---...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KAAD-LP, WCBE, KMXT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye To Kerouac (EXPLICIT language version)
From: Sue Zizza
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida (EXPLICIT language version) --- for edited language version and promos go to --- h...

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
"He changed his mind..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Welcome to that place that stands between us and sleep.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
"This is how the story was told to me." (V3.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Travel. Adventure. Romance. Inexplicable narratives from the man in the window seat.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (A Ghost Story for Christmas)
From: Craig Wichman
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By mining the dark veins of this classic, its timeless heart is reclaimed.

Bought by KREV-LP, WUTC, KTXK, KVSC, KGOU and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2007
  • Length: 55:19
  • Purchases: 61
"This is how the story was told to me." (V2.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
"Note the relationship between the two seated figures in the booth."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Life is a work of art. All you need is an observer at your side, someone to explain the living canvases all around you.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 1