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Napoleon in Exile by Daniel Reitz
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jane Kaczmarek
Napoleon in Exile by Daniel Reitz, is a humorous and touching piece about a single mother and her young adult son who has ASD (Autistic Spectrum Di...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 38:26
  • Purchases: 1
My Husband: A Short Play by Paul Rudnick
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Michael Urie
Starring Harriet Harris and Michael Urie. After gay marriage is legalized in New York, one mother will stop at nothing to get her son to the altar....

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 19:52
Forward Observer: A short play by Willy Holtzman
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried VA hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giving her a hard time a...

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
SHERLOCK HOLMES The Adventure of the Speckled Band pt 2
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes travel to Stoke Moran to investigate the death of Helen Stoner’s sister… and to try and prevent history from repeati...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
Tell Us a Tale Episode 92
From: WTJU
Series: Tell Us A Tale
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"Three Wishes: An Old Story" and "Strega Nona: An Old Story"

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:33
Across The Sea (Los Buques Suicidantes)
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
Caption: Ghost Ship, Credit: Albert Pinkham Ryder
Jackie, a journalist in the 1920s, thought she'd seen it all when she boarded a ship headed where few ships dare sail.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:27
150815 Your Invisible Friend
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Back from a three week vacation with a new persona - "your invisible friend." Too much windshield time.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:38
150627 Live From
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Broadcasting from an imaginary music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ... unless you were very hip in the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 03:02:13
Teaming Up: Two Short Comedies by Kim Merrill and Lanford Wilson
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mother and Son: Two Plays by Daniel Reitz and David Cale
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") stars in the touching and humorous first piece, Napoleon in Exile, directed by Marsha Mason (four time Aca...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

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


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sure Thing: A Short Play by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Liv Rooth
A meet-cute in a coffeeshop contains multitudes, in this entertaining, experimental short, now a classic, from David Ives (Venus in Fur). It is fro...

Bought by KZYX, KUNM, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 3
Section 310, Row D, Seats 5 & 6: A Short Play by Warren Leight
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Peter Jacobson
SECTION 310, ROW D, SEATS 5 & 6 is a short entertaining play from Tony winner Warren Leight about three buddies who bond over their shared passion ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:40
Spin Central - Two Short Plays by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: David Auburn
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
CONVENTION: EPISODE V - REQUIEM FOR THE FALL
From: Annex Radio: The Modern Radio Playhouse
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In the face of a strong third-party challenger, Matt must formulate a new strategy.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:39
CONVENTION: EPISODE IV - FISSION
From: Annex Radio: The Modern Radio Playhouse
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With the Convention eminent, things come undone.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 24:30
Vets and Nets
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tell Us a Tale Episode 65
From: WTJU
Series: Tell Us A Tale
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"Sody Sallyratus" and "How Chipmunk Got Its Stripes"

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:08
An Early Passion For Reading
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015
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African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Banshee: A Short Play by John Patrick Shanley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Aidan Quinn
In BANSHEE, a teacher (Aidan Quinn) who's home sick receives a visitation from an Irish sprite (Geraldine Hughes) and an out-of-this-world proposal...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 25:46
I Do's
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Michael Urie
Michael Urie, Harriet Harris and a great ensemble of actors star in three short plays about love and marriage. A couple celebrates their 24th anniv...

Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Christmas Stories
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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For the next hour we’ve got three Christmas stories. From A Christmas Carol on Wheels, which is performed in 20 minutes, to an event called No Roo...

Bought by WLRN


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding Others: Transformative Writers
From: New Letters on the Air
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We give thanks for transformative writers in this episode entitled UNDERSTANDING OTHERS, a show that features excerpts from six programs that highl...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Adhémar and Jacobi and the Missing Model Locomotive.
From: Charles Spira
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Adhémar (a small lion) and Jacobi (a little monkey) travel from the jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Europe to recover a vintage mode...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 26:50
  • Purchases: 1

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