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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
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On the next episode of the show, storyteller Pippa White will tell us the tale of a woman who, faced with a long ocean voyage, makes kind of a stub...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
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Who's the Slavic folk character who lives in a house on top of giant chicken legs? Well, it's Baba Yaga. This story is told by the great storytelle...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 5
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There's nothing like a classic fairytale, and on this episode of The Apple Seed we'll bring a version of the old story of Rumpelstiltskin. You'll h...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 5
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, the great North Carolina storyteller Donald Davis talks about a time when he was a little kid and they decided t...

Bought by KKRN, WVPE, and KTXK


  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode of the show, a classic Greek myth, the story of Hades and Persephone, told for you by Beatrice Bowles. It's a tale called the Peril...

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear a story from India about monkey and crocodile. A story that illustrates that a quick wit can be the d...

Bought by KTXK and KKRN


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Have you ever wondered: Why does the elephant have such a long trunk? Rudyard Kipling first answered this question with his Just So Stories. In thi...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Peter Gallagher
Bobby Cannavale and Peter Gallagher star in this short about fatherhood. In the comic and heartbreaking 2 Dads by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award win...

Bought by KUNM and KUER


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 21:39
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies' Misadventure. In ...

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...

Bought by KZYX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 32:06
  • Purchases: 2
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...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:05:40
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...

Bought by KSKQ, KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander, Peter Jacobson, Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg star in two short, touching and humorous plays about stepping up when you are neede...

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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Paige Keane and Avery Bowne as Lucinda and Freddie C.
Twilight Zone style science fiction. A programmer launches an ambitious plan to create holograms that act like real people -- but something has gon...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 30:53
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: Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") stars in the touching and humorous first piece, Napoleon in Exile, directed by Marsha Mason (four time Aca...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In the face of a strong third-party challenger, Matt must formulate a new strategy.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:39
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With the Convention eminent, things come undone.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 24:30
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Featuring writers from the 2014 Pygmalion Literary Fest LitCrawl, recorded live at The Esquire Lounge in Chapaign, IL. Readers in this episode incl...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
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October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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STIs. You know it.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 55:34
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What’s a home, anyways?

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:15:34
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Everybody has one.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:31