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Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"
From: Sedge Thomson
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1
Garlic? Yuck!
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A daughter rebels against the bland life her mother has led, while the mother sees it from a very different perspective.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas Visit
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man calls his mother to tell her he can't bring his family home for the holidays, but ends up talking himself into it.

Bought by KMXT, WEZU, WRVO Public Media, WQJC, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 6
The "Laggy" Awards
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Radio Essays On Demand
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One way to get your small company paid

  • Added: Apr 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:19
The Zildjian Cymbal Tester
From: Jackson Braider
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Leon Cippini wanted to be a great drummer; he became a great cymbal tester instead.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Area-Code Chic**
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Radio Essays On Demand
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Could my dorky new cellphone area code be a secretly trendy thing?

  • Added: Apr 07, 2004
  • Length: 03:29
My Bi-(Partisan) Boyfriend**
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Radio Essays On Demand
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Can you help me? Because my beau may be "you know," politically.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2004
  • Length: 03:48
paintmixers
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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artist damali ayo's search through paint stores to match paint to her skin tones.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2004
  • Length: 05:07
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded (Short Version)
From: Hannah Palin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by KUOW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, East Village Radio, WUAL and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2004
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 6
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded
From: Hannah Palin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2004
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 10
Stuck on a Word
From: Patricia Priest
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this offbeat essay the commentator examines her newfound habit of cursing, a feeble but oddly satisfying response to these Orwellian times.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 03:31
Little Odessa in Brooklyn
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One hundred years of Brighton Beach memoirs.

Bought by KUER, KFCF FM, Radio Catskill, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12
Chimpin' The Blues
From: WPSU
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Legendary cartoonist R. Crumb shares his love for early blues recordings.

Bought by KMUW, KRCB 104.9, KGLT, KMUN, WYSO and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2003
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12

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