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How do you explain the January 6th insurrection to children? This special episode of The Fina Mendoza Mysteries podcast looks at the attack on the ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:44
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A mysterious break-in, a congressional lobbying effort about voting, and a sneaky way to get kids excited about the upcoming election...without the...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 34:55
Caption: Fear of the Dark cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
“The Good Cop.” MAGA hat wearing, right-wing immigrant Primo is tormented by his racist fears, and haunted by his hate when he’s as caught in a pro...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
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American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....

Bought by KUNM and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Legend says whoever sees the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill is cursed. Fina Mendoza, the 10-year old daughter of a congressman, just saw it. Can she sav...

Bought by KUNM and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:56:10
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Working woman
Inspired by actual events, Happy Family tells the story of a group of working women in the 1970s who sued a major corporation for equal pay and equ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vernon Baker
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II, April 1945, near Viareggio, in Tuscany, Italy and Ca...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 34:20
Caption: Martha Plimption
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Ed Asner
Starring Ed Asner and Jesse Eisenberg, in The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog, a deposed dictator’s beloved pet answers to the disenfranchis...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 2
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California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
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
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Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:12
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We introduce Matthew Hoffman, the candidate. The tall, charming man of Massachusetts who is only now reflecting on the man he has become.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 18:27
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This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
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A satirical look at nuclear power through the lens of a tour of the Godzilla Electrical Factory.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:02
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Exploring the benefits of an extensive NSA surveillance program.

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Portrait of William Wells Brown, Credit: Engraving from State Historical Society of Missouri
SueMedia Productions, in conjunction with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, (NATF) is offering "William’s Leap for Freedom" for Stations to bro...

Bought by KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 21
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Guy, in an ongoing bid for your vote, takes on the Robots running our Government. He won't stop until they're destroyed and he is in office.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:08
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This is Guy's first attempt at reaching his constituents no matter what it takes.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:02
Caption: Thirst Theater
A hotshot politician hides from the press inside a bar. He and his advisers scramble to do some damage control on a breaking scandal, before they m...

  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 16:34
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Talented actor looks back on his roles in Desperate Housewives and Star Trek Enterprise. We also chat about his movie role in Thirteen Days and Fro...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 31:46
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Episode Seven of the weekly audio sitcom/political satire MAN OF THE PEOPLE (The "Gay Adoption" Episode).

  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 11:59