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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Dec 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:25
This week’s episode of Inside Appalachia features several children's authors, including Cynthia Rylant, who wrote "When I Was Young In The Mountain...
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 54:00
It's a world where 2 plus 2 equals four times the fun. And where the sum of all mischief almost always totals MURDER. In this latest installment in...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 38:09
- Purchases: 1
Proudly marching naked through the Royal Parade! The king is outwitted by two crafty rascals who make a "special" suit of clothes for the Emperor.
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- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 12:11
What can protect you from a huffing, puffing big bad wolf? A house made of straw? Sticks? Stones? The three little pigs test their building skills ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 10:23
Ever heard of Goldilocks, that sweet little mild-mannered child? Or is she? Listen to this episode as she breaks into the house of the three bears,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 22, 2018
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
Imagine you are children's literature publisher R. A. Montgomery...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...
Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes travel to Stoke Moran to investigate the death of Helen Stoner’s sister… and to try and prevent history from repeati...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 27:21
Join us for the perfect bedtime story full of kings, queens, princes, princesses, fairies, merfolk, giant eagles, trained cats, magic, and lessons ...
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 28:31
The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 02:20:44
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
We have two guests with us tonight to discuss the play both as production or performance and as text; the deed and the word. As Harold Goddard said...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 59:19
African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, th...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This is a remembrance of Peter Matthiessen. He invited us to his house in Sagaponack, to hear a story. He gave his characters' accents, fun for him...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 2
Syndicated radio host Susan Barnett (51%, The Women's Perspective, WAMC-New York) reads 'Murray's Mustache' from her short story fiction collection...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 15:27
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg.
Great for Wallace Shawn's birthday, the anniversary of "My Dinner with Andre", ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 09:31
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.
Great for Samuel Beckett's birthday, the anniversary of "Waiting for Go...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 09:34
A short Irish fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Saint Patrick Day or anytime.
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 07:27
Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 39:48
In this edition of My Audio Universe we feature four short stories selected from the spectrum of online literary publications and adapted to audio ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 59:01
