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Broadway Bound
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Budding writers Stanley and Eugene Jerome must face their worst enemy: a blank page.

Bought by KCHW, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 27
Lost Oldies of the '80s & '90s, New Indie Music!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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It's a wacky selection of tunes from decades past – Todd Rundgren just wants to bang on the drum all day, the California Raisins are sweet and deli...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
New Music March!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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Entirely NEW tunes today - from the likes of The Lemon Twigs, The Liverbirds, The Last Dinner Party and more. Plus, a hilarious "on-air call" from ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Music, Music, Music!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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A wide variety of tunes today - including a Pixar jazz standard, a Chipmunks Broadway cover, a McCartney nursery rhyme, and new indie gems by The L...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Wacky New Year!
From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour
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It’s our “Best of 2023” show! With novelty and pop tunes galore and a few of the funniest on-air phone calls from the last year, plus a review of t...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Bump
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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An inspired delivery for Mother's Day.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 18
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
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Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
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Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
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For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Sammy Marques
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 26:21
StoryCorps Griot: Sydia Bell and Danny Bell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sydia, Danny, and Maritza Bell with their dog (not Roxanna) in 2016
Danny Bell tells his daughter Sydia about trying to teach her mother to drive.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost in Yonkers
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A Pulitzer Prize-winner from Neil Simon

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 36
Closing the TaB
From: WFIU
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews” a memoir by Mary Jo Pehl
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Mary Jo Pehl talks about her 2022 memoir “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews”

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 09:38
The Apple Seed - Kim Weitkamp + Scenes from 'Peter Pan'
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A childhood story from Kim Weitkamp, and a reader's theater telling of Peter Pan.

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
It Is Definitely Summer
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune into the next “Sounds Jewish” for summer songs and shtick from around the Jewish world.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - Bill Harley and Pencil Neck
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, a generation gap story about students and their teachers. Bill Harley with "Happy Birthday Mrs. Nottingham" on the...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KKRN, KSJE, KNCT FM and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:02
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Sophia Lansky and Neil Kramer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Neil Kramer and Sophia Lansky on February 9th, 2022 in Queens, New York. , Credit: Neil Kramer
Neil Kramer and his ex-wife, Sophia Lansky, talk about their unique quarantine experience together.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:46
The Apple Seed - Blonde, Beautiful, and Bubbly
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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What happens when your ideas about what makes a successful person are tied up in your ideas about your sister, who as you describe, is blonde, beau...

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - The Crane Wife
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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One of the greatest joys in this life is the joy of our relationships. In today’s stories, you'll hear a Japanese story from Donald Davis about a m...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, and KKRN


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 2
From: Greg Dorchak
Series: GOLD DUST
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Life in a small Texas town in the 1880 takes a little getting used to for Sam and Horace.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 26:19
Episode 1
From: Greg Dorchak
Series: GOLD DUST
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Two hapless Con Men - Sam Donovan and Horace Fletcher - bounce around rural Texas towns in the 1940's.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:12
Episode 4
From: Greg Dorchak
Series: GOLD DUST
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In the conclusion of our story, Sam and Horace help Minerva and Dusty hide their treasure.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 23:56
The Apple Seed - It's Tricky
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Who's the Slavic folk character who lives in a house on top of giant chicken legs? Well, it's Baba Yaga. This story is told by the great storytelle...

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


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 5