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Anna in the Tropics
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Jimmy Smits stars in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 27
A perpetrator priest speaks out — in dialogue with a survivor
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Today, the...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Snap 1001: This Is Not A Drill, 1/10/2019
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next all-NEW Snap… “This Is Not A Drill”. For 38 minutes in 2018, Hawaiians thought their world was about to end.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
A Man of His Time by Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
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
Changing of the Guard: Two short plays by Max Baker and James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Geraldine Hughes
CHANGING OF THE GUARD features two short comedies about getting outpaced by a world zooming way ahead. In The Mandela Effect, written and directed...

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
American Pianists Association
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: American Pianists Association, Credit: www.americanpianists.org
We’ll hear about a contest with the five finalists for the APA - the American Pianists Association on this episode of What’s New!

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Interview with Buzz Bissinger about 25th Anniversary of Friday Night Lights
From: Lana Straub
Caption: Friday Night Lights Book Cover
Author interview with Buzz Bissinger about 25th Anniversary of Friday Night Lights

  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 17:30
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
Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
512: The Guide, 5/29/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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There is a time to go your own way, forge ahead on your own path, and then there are times... when you can not go it alone. From NPR and PRX we pro...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
Review: HER
From: Daniel Persons
Series: Hour of the Wolf Movie Reviews
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Review of Spike Jonze's HER.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
Snap 327: Partners In Crime, 2/27/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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There are things you do that you know you would never do unless there was someone watching, someone urging you on, someone who was part of the plan...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
The Writ Writer - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Scipio A. Jones, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Writ Writer - part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: The Writ Writer, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
This is a story that begs to be told. It’s long overdue. The year was 1919. The place: Phillips County, Arkansas. What became a watershed moment i...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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It's not dark yet. Well, actually it is. But actor Alfred Molina makes a book with Death in the title an absolute thrill to listen to. The program ...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 6
A Conversation with Howard Shalwitz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz talks about the Wooly Mammoth Theater company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 22:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Tragedy of JULIUS CAESAR
From: Craig Wichman
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The true, timeless story of the ever-shifting lines between governance and oppresion, political action and violence.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, WAMU, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2008
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 3
Five Days in July radio drama
From: Charles Schultz
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a half-hour original radio drama

Bought by KUNM and WCBE


  • Added: Jul 03, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dead Man Walking Play Project Show
From: Miles Eddy
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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
Life on the Outside
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Two mentally ill and homeless repeat offenders attempt to break the cycle -- one that for years has spun from jail, to psychiatric hospitals, to th...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
Sacramento
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two men talk of a couple whose bizarre lifestyle has nevertheless supported a love and commitment stronger than what the men have experienced in th...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Interracial Marriage
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young bride-to-be in an interracial marriage tries to get reassurance from a hesitant sister who doesn't want to "take sides."

  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Blood in the Kitchen
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sister and brother clean up the aftermath of a bloody parental fight, wondering if this is just what moms and dads do. As adults they wonder if it...

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Robby's Dead
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A cleaning lady tells her baffled employer that she has disowned her own son for going against the tenets of their church.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 01:38