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From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Diner Chatter
Let's eat! A virtual audio buffet featuring food songs and visits to classic diners and restaurants with vintage movie, television clips and Spam o...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 31:42
230917 Overtime Free Form Radio - Quirky Songwriters Cover SF, LA, Miami, and Other Cities
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The "Bob" In The Machine
Three of the most individual songwriters, Slim Gaillard, Randy Newman, and Martin Mull, sing about cities.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
May The Fourth Be With You
From: Wind & Rhythm
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What comes to mind when you think of the 4th of May? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we celebrate Star Wars, with music from the many movies of t...

Bought by WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, WRTI, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 13
The Lion in Winter
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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One of history's most volatile families back-stabs their way through an unforgettable Christmas.

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


  • Added: Dec 29, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 34
Lux Jezebel
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU and KMXT


  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 2
Vampires Shut Down Power Plants
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: team installing water heater controllers
The refrigerator or water heater in your home can be part of the clean energy revolution.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
One Night Only: The Beatles in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The Beatles arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, August 1965, Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
August 21, 1965, the Beatles invaded Metropolitan Stadium for their first ever Minnesota concert, bringing together a high school photographer with...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 76
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Conjuror', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program is a 5 minute spoken word program that is a recitation of renaissance fables. Part of the 76 episode series available on Public Radio ...

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Lives in Music: Gordon Giltrap
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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A vintage UK folk craftsman plays live and reminisces about the folk scene of 50 years ago

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 32:40
An Ideal Husband
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Oscar Wilde's dark comedy about indiscretion and its effects on a government official.

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


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 25
Design for Living
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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An unconventional love triangle, courtesy of Noël Coward.

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 18
Lady Windermere's Fan
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The irreverent satire that launched Oscar Wilde’s series of classic comedies.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 26
Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science
From: Distillations
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This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:06
18-14 William Kanengiser Interview, LAGQ
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Bill Kanengiser, Credit: William Kanengiser
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features an interview with the brilliantly witty and extraordinarily talented William Kanengiser of ...

Bought by KXIQ , WICR, WEKU, WETS, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 38
2 - The Pathogen
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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If you like having a brain but don't really care about having skin, please listen to this episode.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
Anniversary by Rachel Bonds
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Sarah Sokolovic
ANNIVERSARY by Rachel Bonds, a comic drama about a young, grieving woman who finds love again. Featuring Michael Esper (The Last Ship, A Beautiful ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 21:24
The Philadelphia: A Short Play by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jenn Harris
In the manic, outrageous and other dimension comedy The Philadelphia by David Ives, even ordering a sandwich is a challenge of epic proportions - l...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 15:04
  • Purchases: 3
Bilateral Relations
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Abhishek Bachchan and Keith Vaz
In the last decade Bollywood has snuck into America. Bollywood aerobics. Bollywood theme parties. It even snuck into the Oscars via Slumdog Million...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 59
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Grammy Winners Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman, Musician Sofia Talvik, and Becomi...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
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
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
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 30
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Country Stars Josey Milner and Amy Rose.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 57:59
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
Mr. Money
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Join Mr. Money as he teaches the neighborhood kids about finance.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 04:02
Sly Crooner Episode #2 The Cats Come To Town
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
Caption: Sly Crooner of Swanktown
Billie Holiday, Warren Zevon, Igor Stravinsky and others make an astonishing visit to the Royal Palm Court Lounge.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 28:30