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My Audio Universe Winter 2011 - explicit
From: Brian Bahouth
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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
Everybody SCREAM!!!
From: The Truth
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Spin class gets personal.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMPG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KGLT and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 7
From Pharma to Table: The McDonald's-Pfizer Merger
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Finally, McDonald's and Pfizer have announced a plan to merge operations. The Final Edition investigates...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
Hungry at the Homesick Restaurant: the Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
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Anne Tyler has a new book out! "The Beginner's Goodbye." Here Julia Child presents passages from an earlier Anne Tyler favorite, "Dinner at the Hom...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 24:58
Interruptible
From: The Truth
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An audio drama from The Truth, about a taxi ride interrupted.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:53
  • Purchases: 1
Rootabaga Stories of Carl Sandburg
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: Balloon Pickers, Credit: MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
In 1922 the poet Carl Sandburg wrote a children's book about an imaginary place called The Rootabaga Country. It was very popular. Its stories rang...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 19:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Legend of Knockmany
From: Roy Trumbull
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In this story of the legendary giant Finn MacCool, he is being pursued by another giant who has a magic finger that gives him great strength. It is...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 21:22
  • Purchases: 1
Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
From: Roy Trumbull
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Two rich farmers in Ireland envy the tiny slip of land owned by Donald O'Neary who has but one cow to his name. But Donald is a clever lad who is e...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 13:28
The Story Teller At Fault
From: Roy Trumbull
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The king's story teller gets up one morning and fails to have a story pop into his head to work on for that evening.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 18:49
The Hypnotist
From: Roy Trumbull
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A young man has eyes which engage those of others. He is a natural hypnotist and a natural sociopath.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2012
  • Length: 10:19
Sketchy Thursday: Zartoolie The Ecological Wizard (And Friends)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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All Lieutenant Bainbridge wants is a quiet night at home. Sadly, his friends have other plans. Will Bainbridge ever get to enjoy a dish of figs i...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:39
Doomsday
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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The world is ending soon...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
Rent-A-Family
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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An ominous facility appears in a rural town and the playground is abuzz with anxious rumors.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 06:26
Hungry in Winter: The Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 49:35
Lean & Hungry Theater Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
From: Lean & Hungry Theater
Caption: Original Broadcast Promotional Art, Credit: Aaron Hansen
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in the Prohibition Era, with live sound effects and some of the finest S...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KREV-LP, KUT, WMNF, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 5
The Baker's Dozen
From: Roy Trumbull
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A tale from New Amsterdam concerning the origin of 13 being a baker's dozen.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:26
3 Great American Voices
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: Julia Child
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 6
Restful, Shady Places
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The authors of "Trailer Ahoy!" and "Trees as Good Citizens" enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas With Grandma
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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With Grandma, things start bad and get worse.

Bought by KTXK, KUER, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Hungry Valentine, with Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia and Paul's Valentine, Credit: Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts
Happy Valentine's from Julia Child! This one-hour special was started years ago but never aired till now. She presents two love stories that have t...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WYAP, KAAD-LP, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 28
Megan Abbott discusses "Bury Me Deep"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award winning novelist."Bury Me Deep" is her fourth book.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:55
Hungry for the Holidays, with Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
Julia Child takes us back in time, presenting 2 stories -- "A Christmas Carol," read by the actor Peter Donat; and "I Was Really Very Hungry," writ...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KWIT, Boise State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 54:49
  • Purchases: 41
Witness to Surrender
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Japanese Surrender, Credit: Marion Doss
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 46:57
Gentawake.
From: Steve Webb
Series: The Gentlemen's Club
Caption: The Gentlemen's Club
The Gentleman's Alarm Clock

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: :45
The Men From T.R.O.U.S.E.R in The Guns of Surabaya. Act 2, Jungle High Jinx!
From: Steve Webb
Series: The Gentlemen's Club
Caption: The Men From T.R.O.U.S.E.R present "The Men from T.R.O.U.S.E.R"
Gentleman hero Jack Sopwith and his dipsomaniac accomplice Aloysius Swift continue their quest to track down gun runners in the South China Seas.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:19

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