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The Sopranos and Hamlet
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
The Sopranos and the Closure-Junkies
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:09
The Sopranos, or the Tiger?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
Memoirs, Fathers and Oprah
From: KLCC
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Commentator Melissa Hart considers what sort of payback a memoir by her father might contain.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2007
  • Length: 03:39
The Street of the Cauldron Makers
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 2
"One side is windy, the other is not."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
From: Miranda Diboll
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How the media simplify a life though obituaries or even just a few simple lines.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Thomas Lynch
From: WDET Detroit Public Radio
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funeral director and writer waxes poetic

  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 03:45
Finding My Kerouac: On the Road at Mid-Life
From: David Berner
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
The Truth About Dracula
From: Hillary Frank
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Suzanne Muldowney explains why her interpretation of Dracula is the most authentic.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WRIR, KALW, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 11
"I think it went well."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The meeting went well. Didn't it?

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
"I saw the obituary while I was recycling the newspapers."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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A cold, rainy, winter night in Los Angeles and a friend comes over late to see you. There's something she needs to talk about. You give her a gla...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 1
"This is how the story was told to me." (V2.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
"Note the relationship between the two seated figures in the booth."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Life is a work of art. All you need is an observer at your side, someone to explain the living canvases all around you.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 1
How To Sell A Novel - a 4-minute primer
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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an award-winning author of 5 novels tells what it takes to sell one

  • Added: Dec 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:57
In Conversation...with John Kain
From: Carolyn Crane
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a talk about spiritual teachers with author John Kain

  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
Artist Born of War
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Writers from the US and Vietnam, whose births as artists were formed from their experiences from the Vietnam War.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
"The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An interview with Fouad Ajami about The Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Laurete Naguib Mahfouz who died 30 Aug 2006.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
Legacy
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Story Salon Live
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Salon regular and Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty discovers an unnoticed gift in a crowded train station.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: A Conversation with James Meek
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A conversation with novelist and journalist James Meek about his latest novel, ?A People?s Act of Love.?

  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
"What's your opinion of memory?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
"I asked her to sing a song."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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First comes trust. Then comes control.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2
"He did not drop the glass."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Sometimes the most trivial of accidents can devide our lives into before and after.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: For Every Atom Belonging to Me?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Memoir Cafe: Episode 25
From: Gary Smith
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33

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