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Sugar Loaf Theatre
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Seamus Sinclair joins us to talk about the new Sugar Loaf Theatre. Original air date: 12/06/22

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 26:44
Halloween with the Apple Seed 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A special storytelling Halloween episode with the Apple Seed! Spooky and silly stories about Halloween.

Bought by KTXK, KTSW 89.9, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - The Dragon and the Monkey's Heart
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Maybe you've heard the fairytale "Snow White and Rose Red", well on this episode of The Apple Seed, just for fun we'll bring you a fractured fairyt...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KTXK


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Reaching for the Moon
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode, we hear a story from Australian storyteller Jenni Cargill Strong, about a king who orders the royal carpenters to build him a towe...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 5
GREAT Theatre and KVSC Radio Present Nigh of the Living Dead!
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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Before Southerners hid in prisons and had to deal with barbed wire baseball bats and governors . . . Before the overrun shopping malls . . . Bef...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:54
2018 Christmas Radio Show: 1938 Noir
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Theatre du Mississippi's Christmas Radio Show 2018, Credit: Kelli Knobloch
It came upon a murder clear… It’s this years Christmas Radio Show. The time is Christmas 1938, the setting is Winona, MN, the theme… murder. On thi...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:36:33
Two Crows Apart by Max Baker
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Ciaran Hinds
Game of Throne's Ciaran Hinds stars in TWO CROWS APART. A couple braces themselves for unwanted houseguests, political correctness, and a murder of...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 22:11
Uncle Lolo, Who Goes to Hell
From: Donald Whalen
Caption: Basswood Shoes (digital painting), Credit: Donald Whalen
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
The Prick Of Noon: Talking About Romeo & Juliet
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
EPISODE II - WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS
From: Annex Radio: The Modern Radio Playhouse
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The primaries are over and Governor Hoffman is in Chicago for the Democratic Convention. Everyone is where they should be except for Senator Craig ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 23:01
Fine Dining
From: The Truth
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Of all the five senses, taste is the most intimate.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WRIR, KFAI Minneapolis, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 23:12
  • Purchases: 7
Miracles
From: Brian Bahouth
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Miracles was written by Lucy Corin and first appeared in the literary magazine Tin House. Martina Davis reads this delicious piece of flash fictio...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
The Modern Prometheus
From: The Truth
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A satire about a corporation that becomes a person.

Bought by KZYX, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 16:22
  • Purchases: 4
The Spirits of Imaginary Animals
From: Brian Bahouth
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The Spirits of Imaginary Animals was written by Simon Jacobs and first published in the literary magazine bluestem. John Fredrick reads this tale ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
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
The Hypnotist
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
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
My Funeral, Your Trial
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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Unreasonable demands from BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Bought by WCBE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
Insects, Frogs, and Women
From: Walker Mettling
Series: the sparkle*
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Darker stories of love and coming of age by Providence's most exciting new writers.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:26
Aaron Kelly's Bones
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People
Caption: Imakhu, from her show, "Wednesday's African Child"
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...

Bought by KUT and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Raymond Carver Reads What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: Cover, Times Book Review 11/22/09, Credit: Ruth Gwili
The 2015 Best Picture has drawn from Raymond Carver's WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, his most famous story; he reads it in his own voi...

Bought by WRGY, KRCB 104.9, KUER, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
The Notebook
From: Walker Mettling
Series: the sparkle*
Caption: pitbull skull, Credit: wiki commons
Episode 1 of The Sparkle. I found this awesome notebook full of stories on the bus.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Tale Spinning Terrors!
From: Jerry Kenney
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Frighten up your holidays with 'edge of your seat' storytelling and holiday music in this 'Tale Spinning' hour of Terror from WYSO Public Radio and...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
11 Central Ave #113. The final episode, the family gets poor and gets God.
From: 800 lb. Productions
Series: 11 Central Ave
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This week's installment of the radio comic strip.

Bought by WUGA (part of GPB)


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Calling Purgatory
From: Warren Black
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Getting stuck on hold can feel like hell.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2007
  • Length: 01:29