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The Age of Innocence: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 5
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” This half-hou...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with David Seidler
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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David Seidler talks about his film, The King's Speech, and his own struggle with stuttering.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 31:21
A Conversation with Charles Randolph-Wright
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:38
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Carolyn Barnwell
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Elaine and Francis- a nun and a priest- fell deeply in love and left the Church so they could be married. Nearly 40 years later, on Jan. 3rd 2010, ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Proebstle on Fatal Incident
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings. Heard that phrase before? Want to take it on as your own?...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Erin Ryan
From: StoryCorps
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Erin Ryan remembers her father, Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated in 1978 while on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 14, 2011
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 3
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...

Bought by WMPG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 5
I Didn't Know
From: Heather Strycharz
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A man waits for a loved one to exit surgery.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Moon Graffiti
From: The Truth
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What if Apollo 11 had crashed?

Bought by KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2010
  • Length: 15:21
  • Purchases: 7
The Family And Friends Campground
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
What better place to fight over a woman?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:19
Too Much of a Good Thing
From: Elsa Lankford
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A radio drama written, edited, and produced by Elsa Lankford (elsa4sound@gmail.com). "Too Much of a Good Thing" is what happens when you mix myster...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 47:29
I Thought You Shot Someone
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
An apocryphal tale

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:23
That Wasn't A Burp
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Our Neighbors Are So Close, I Thought I Heard One Burp

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: :36
I've Seen Worse
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you have never replaced the wax seal beneath your toilet, I suggest that you do.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: :29
Leonard Nimoy
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Legendary actor talks to me about his time with Company Of Angels, a theater company he helped found and a special event that he is a part of on Oc...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 15:54
Magda Apanowicz
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Magda Apanowicz

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 31:01
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1937: The Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers Sit-In
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by WVTF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBYS 88.3 FM, KBGA 89.9 FM, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 12
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 5
Jaime Bamber
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Jamie talked about the season three finale before it aired that Sunday night. He also hints about a fifth cylon.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 18:35
White Water Rafting
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: :29
A Threatening Letter
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Radio commentators sometimes receive threatening letters.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:55
It
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
IT is very much like THEY

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :34
Those Self Evident Truths
From: Ted Magnuson
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Democracy-Anglo/American Style-Nationbuilding from the days of the Divine Rights of Kings to Lincoln's Immortal Words at Gettysburg.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:12:47
Bozo and the Storyteller
From: Tom Thumb
Caption: Available from www.bozoandthestoryteller.com
Chapter one of the book for anyone who never really grew up

  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 18:31

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