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The Villain we hate But Can't LIve Without: TV
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Interesting Point with SCADRadio
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TV is who we are

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Literary Roots of Opera
From: Modern Language Association
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Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, and their literary predecessors

Bought by 'The Sea', WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 9
Scouts are Cancelled: Poems
From: John Stiles
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Poems from the acclaimed documentary: Scouts are Cancelled

  • Added: Jul 31, 2007
  • Length: 07:21
Irvine Welsh Interview
From: Maeve Conran
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Author Irvine Welsh talks about his latest book "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs".

  • Added: Jul 19, 2007
  • Length: 23:53
The Sopranos and Hamlet
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
The Sopranos and the Closure-Junkies
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:09
The Sopranos, or the Tiger?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
What's the Word? Al Pacino's Shakespeare
From: Modern Language Association
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Actor Al Pacino's mission to bring Shakespeare to a wider audience...

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
Interview with award-winning poet, ALICE FULTON
From: Out of Bounds
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Conversation with award-winning poet ALICE FULTON

  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
KidTales: Wind in the Willows Ch. 1
From: KTNA
Series: KidTales: The Wind in the Willows
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
"This is how the story was told to me." (V2.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
"Note the relationship between the two seated figures in the booth."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Life is a work of art. All you need is an observer at your side, someone to explain the living canvases all around you.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: Spoken Word for Peace (58:00 / 54:00 / or Three 29:00 programs)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Actors, storytellers and poets express their hope for peace with the spoken word.

Bought by WVTF, WXXI Rochester, KNCT FM, KWMR, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 20
RN Documentary: A Conversation with James Meek
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A conversation with novelist and journalist James Meek about his latest novel, ?A People?s Act of Love.?

  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
"This is how the story was told to me."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
"On the afternoon of July 12, 1960..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Can the memories evoked by a forgotten perfume change a life?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Mean Streets USA: A Collection of Short Crime Fiction
From: KCRW
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Classic and contemporary noir detective stories, read by actors

Bought by KZYX, Indie3 Radio, WSLR, KUNM, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 06:10:21
  • Purchases: 9
The House with A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Ten-year-old Lewis has unleashed a force that threatens not only himself and his Uncle Jonathan, but the entire world. The turn of events are both ...

Bought by KZYX and KTNA


  • Added: Nov 04, 2005
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 2
"The Woodpecker"
From: KCUR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Muskogee Creek Indian story called "The Woodpecker."

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Twelve-year old Summer’s only support is her Great Uncle Ob and he’s lost his will to live. But don’t give up hope – help’s on the way.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
THE BFG by Roald Dahl
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Sophie discovers giants are planning to eat the children of England. How do you free the world of guzzle-swallomping, kid-eating giants? You cook u...

Bought by KZYX, KWCW, and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 3
Slam: Literary Fad or Movement
From: Don McIver
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In the 80's Marc Smith invented the Poetry Slam, which has swept the country and created a spoken word revolution.

Bought by KRZA, Marfa Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUHB, WEKU and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2005
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 7
A Corner of the Universe
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Now that Adam's "school" is closing, Hattie's family must deal with a childlike man whose existence they've denied for years.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Naturalist Pierre Arronax is on a mission to discover and destroy a mysterious beast terrorizing ships and soons finds himself at the mercy of the ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
Night Flying
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Georgia Hansen can fly...and now on the verge of her first solo flight, her rebellious Aunt Carmen visits and exposes other family secrets.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KTNA, and WCFM


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 5

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