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On this week's programme: The secretive prisons that keep migrants out of Europe. Omnicron takes hold: will Christmas be cancelled in the UK? Turke...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Snehal Desai, Credit: Courtesy of East West Players
Snehal Desai talks about producing new Asian-American, socially-conscious theater at East West Players

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Legacy of slavery - We take a closer look at Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, the darkest chapter in t...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: John Lithgow
John Lithgow and Debra Monk star in FORTUNE’S FOOL, two plays about very different competitions -- and what people will do when they want to win ba...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Coronavirus: more than 250 million people in lockdown across the EU. The Italians adjust to life under siege. Criticism ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: The war in Yemen has pushed millions to the brink of famine. There's a cholera epidemic looming. Despite a fragile truce in ...

  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Kyle Donnelly
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:59
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried VA hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giving her a hard time a...

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
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
Caption: Maziar Bahari and Jon Stewart, San Francisco, CA 10/22/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari talk moral standing, Dr. Strangelove, and the extended meaning of the word Aryan.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:46
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Denis Henry Hennelly talks unexpected politics, the symbiosis of art and commerce, and the real meaning of apocalypse.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 15:46
Caption: Ziad Doueiri, San Francisco, CA 7/31/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ziad Doueiri talks facing monsters, freedom of speech, and refusing to play politics.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 24:48
Caption: Jim Sturgess, San Francisco, CA 3/6/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jim Sturgess talks music, metaphor, and suffering for his art.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:49
Caption: Mira Nair, Mill Valley, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mira Nair talks multiple identities, defining fundamentalism, and creating dialogue.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 13:14
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Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges came to Washington to take part in a campaign to end hunger. He visited a school in Washington, and met w...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:48:00
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The Dead Man Walking Play Project in Alamosa, Colorado engages the local community about a national issue; the death penalty. Includes reactions f...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 28:30
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Host Suzanne Kryder talks with actor Kathryn Blume (pictured above), star of her own one-woman show called "The Accidental Activist." Blume discuss...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1