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A Tale of Charles Dickens
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Charles Dickens - detective?

Bought by KMUN, KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
"The Doctor", written and narrated by Michael Henrik Wynn
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is my reading of my own short story. It is a sort of horror story set in Victorian London.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 13:36
135 Stephen King
From: KCME
Series: Dinner and a Movie
Caption: Film music you remember, even if you've forgotten the film.
Quinn Riley explores the music from films based on the stories of Stephen King.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
SHE'S A MANEATER
From: melodically challenged
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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Salomé and Oedipus the King
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A hypnotic double bill of tragedies set in the ancient world.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 27
Under the Eye of Power
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
From: Jennifer March
Series: Not Your Mother's Storytime
Caption: The Open Boat, Credit: Robert Quakenbush
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
Cupid's Arrow
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Macbeth
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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One of the darkest and most unsparing tragedies from the pen of William Shakespeare.

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 18
Bound Unto Root: The Golden Pith
From: Dominic Francisco
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An array of horror tales that tackle the artistic ego, an original score, and field recordings to insulate a unique atmosphere for the mind.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:20:37
Hedda Gabler
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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She's passionate, cunning, and very, VERY bored.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 20
The Write Question - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chinese-American writer Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses her debut novel, "Four Treasures of the Sky."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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In part one of this interview, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort reads from her early books, including FACTORY OF TEARS, in both English and Belarusian...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fiction Writer Amina Gautier
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
After 9/11
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...

Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Scottish Poet and Editor Robin Robertson: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Robin Robertson, whose known for his translations of ancient Greek works and his depiction of folktales from his native Scotland, discusses how myt...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Lauren Oyler
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel "Fake Accounts."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Rio Youers discusses "Lola on Fire"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
Caption: Lola on Fire
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of Westlake Soul and Halcyon.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
Poet DaMaris Hill
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Award-winning Poet and Fiction Writer Laura Kasischke
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Photo by David Shankbone CC BY 3.0
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Laura Kasischke discusses her journey to writing fiction. Now the author of nine novels, she ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee citizen, Kim Shuck, the author of the recently released poetry collection, WHOSE WATER. San F...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music for Halloween.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 55:04
  • Purchases: 1
DEATHPROOF
From: melodically challenged
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Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, said, “Imagination…can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in.” This week on melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:03
WORD for WORDcast - E.M Forster's "The Machine Stops" Pt. 3 - The Homeless
From: Andrew Burmester
Series: WORD for WORDcast
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Part 2 - The Homeless - WORD for WORDcast continues E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, this is a dystopian look at the future, wh...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:01