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Secret of Macarger's Gulch
From: Roy Trumbull
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A falling apart cabin in a gulch reveals part of its secret to a travelling hunter who spends the night there. He learns the rest later.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 18:01
Moxon's Master
From: Roy Trumbull
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In his private workshop, the inventor Moxon has created a mechanical chess player. It has an attitude; a murderous one.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 23:35
Dark Times
From: Gumbeater
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The estate of Count Nicholas Herzen in the early years of the 20th century. The collapse of the Romanov dynasty in Russia is slowly unfolding, whic...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:08
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
True Vampires of New Haven
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: One of several vampire safe-houses in New Haven.
Real vampires are nothing like the ones we see depicted in Twilight or True Blood. Most of them are just trying to get by. (NOTE: This is a radio d...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
11: Is That Real Enough For You?
From: Matt Hill
Series: Numbers
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Drama series following Sam, a 26-year-old trapped in a call centre. Literally. This is the beginning of season two; a good way in for newbies.

  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
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
How I Learned To Tell Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Notes From the Huntley Project
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The inability to tell time has forced six-year-old Jaybird to become an outlaw and to face a darkness that did not exist to him before now.

Bought by KMXT, KUT, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2010
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 3
Certain Death Cola
From: Roy Trumbull
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What if all the bad stuff about drinking cola were spelled out on the label under the image of a skull?

  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 14:50
Jack And The Bad Stock
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satire on the scandals of a few years ago when there was a lot of fiction on the books of corporations. It is based on Jack And The Beans...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • 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
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
Flu
From: Billy Senese
Series: Midnight Radio Theater
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Flu is about a family who seclude themselves in the mountains during a dangerous epidemic of the swine flu.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 41:49
Samuel Ligon
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Samuel Ligon is the author of DRIFT AND SWERVE, a collection of stories (2009), and SAFE IN HEAVEN DEAD, a novel (2003).

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
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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
Listening in the Dark
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
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Ready for some good old-fashioned scares this Halloween? Then the Icebox Radio Theater is ready to deliver with a trio stories designed to chill y...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:45
  • Purchases: 10
2 Minute Film Noir
From: ZBS FOUNDATION
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A compilation of a bunch of short 2 Minute Film Noir audio stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 53:03
  • Purchases: 3
Fear & Loathing in Budapest
From: Chris Carlson
Series: Thirst Theater presents
Caption: Thirst Theater
A pretty American tourist with a secret becomes the guest of honor at a birthday party thrown by an attractive Hungarian artist who she has just met.

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 15:33
  • Purchases: 1
Blood Oath
From: Billy Senese
Series: Midnight Radio Theater
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Blood Oath is a story about eternal love and longing.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 36:38
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
Jokes Have I Known
From: Matt Gajewski
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A priest, a minister, and a rabbi step into a bar . . .

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 45:39
The Pride
From: Matt Gajewski
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30