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The Apple Seed - Mrs. Ammons and the Boys' Room
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us on today's episode with Bill Harley's telling of Mrs. Ammons and the Boys' Room. It's a story that will take you right back to elementary s...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 3
The Apple Seed - That's What Mamas Do
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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We place some special focus on the importance of mothers. That, and much more, on today's episode of The Apple Seed.

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 1
Learning from the Land
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Today’s collection of stories celebrates nature. Storytellers Jay O’Callahan, Glenda Bonin, Joseph Bruchac, Susan Reed, and Valentina Oritz take us...

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
FORTUNE'S FOOL: Short Plays About Winning
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
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
The Big Easy: Short Southern Comedies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Michael C. Hall
Michael C. Hall and Martha Plimpton star in THE BIG EASY. It features two charming audio comedies set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana. Firs...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 53:19
  • Purchases: 3
Non-RomCom
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Molly Bernard
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


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
HOLY MOLY: Two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Susie Essman of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Jim Dale and Susie Essman star in HOLY MOLY, two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives. In PLAYING GOD, a divine comedy from SNL's Alan Zw...

Bought by KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), Prairie Public, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Fifth Planet by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan stars in Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet. A professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone; “The ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 39:50
150627 Live From
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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Broadcasting from an imaginary music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ... unless you were very hip in the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 03:02:13
Sure Thing: A Short Play by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Liv Rooth
A meet-cute in a coffeeshop contains multitudes, in this entertaining, experimental short, now a classic, from David Ives (Venus in Fur). It is fro...

Bought by KZYX, KUNM, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 3
Crazy Love
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Rosie Perez, Credit: Rob Northway
John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Bobby Cannavale star in CRAZY EIGHTS by David Lindsay-Abaire (Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner). Two recovering drug ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WRGY, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 8
Peter Matthiessen Performs a Story
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a remembrance of Peter Matthiessen. He invited us to his house in Sagaponack, to hear a story. He gave his characters' accents, fun for him...

Bought by KZYX and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 2
Higher Powers
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Audra McDonald, Credit: Autumn de Wilde
Aidan Quinn, Audra McDonald and Tonya Pinkins star in shorts by John Patrick Shanley (Oscar, Pulitzer, Tony winner) and Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Priz...

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
Something Very Lovely
From: William Cook
Series: Waxworks
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Something Very Lovely. Hosted by William Cook

  • Added: Oct 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
Potpouri - Program #1
From: William Cook
Series: Waxworks
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Potpouri - Program #1 Featuring the Bikersons, Andy Griffith, Tom Lair, Florence Foster Jenkins, Harry Brewer Group, Arch Obler (The Dark)

  • Added: Oct 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
130303 Synthetic Arabic Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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A sequel to the Synthetic Chinese Music show of a December 30, 2012. Tonight an hour's worth of songs that use the oboe, gongs and tiny bells to c...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:50:41
Home Runs
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jerry Stiller
In I'M WITH YA, DUKE, by Tony winner Herb Gardner, Jerry Stiller plays a fruit vendor dreaming of the good old days when Duke Snider played for the...

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


  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
100 Million Dollar Dash
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The highlight of the London Olympics: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama face off in the 100 Million Dollar Dash. Bob Costas and Al Michaels with the c...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
Radio Theater Project Episode 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Castle in Brittany; Grampa Ed’s Twisted Fairy Tales: The Princess and the Pea

  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:35
"I Lied" read by author Scott Barbour
From: Amy Wallen
Series: DimeStories
Caption: DimeStories 3-minute stories read by the author
A job interview of nothing but lies.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
"The Voices In My Head" read by author Jack Handey
From: Amy Wallen
Series: DimeStories
Caption: DimeStories 3-minute stories read by the author
The narrator contemplates the conundrum of those voices in his head telling him what to do.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, KUOW, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 5
Reusing Old Calendars
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What to do with old calendars.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
Boston Tea Party
From: Nicholas Demarest
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A radio play on the preceding events and organization of the Boston Tea Party.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2008
  • Length: 06:32