PRX - Pieces for Tone: Offbeat

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Part One of the third season finale of KVSC Granite City Radio Theatre was nothing short of thrilling! The sold out theatre audience on May 20, 201...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:41
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The adult daughter hasn't called; the parents are desperate; but at least there's a message on the machine.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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An elderly man prepares to take his senile wife to the nursing home, trying inarticulately to express his love.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
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A man is furious at his siblings making a public show of love for their deceased mother: they never showed their love while she was alive.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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The wife wants another baby. The man, expressing great enthusiasm, procrastinates.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A mother and daughter offer individual visions of who is "family." To Mom, it's only her daughter; to her daughter, it's the world.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
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A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
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A man wants his wife of 25 years to renew their lapsed intimacy, but she resists opening the wounds.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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Two brothers sort through the attic after their mother's death, coming into contact with memories through the Christmas wrappings she preserved.

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A single parent reassures her small child there's no shame in being illegitimate -- but the child is asking something entirely different.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A teenager whose parents are divorcing sees that she has become a pawn of negotiation, in competition with the family dog.

Bought by WQJC and East Village Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 2
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A suicidal youth dials the wrong number for the crisis help-line and gets Sam.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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He couldn't be with his dying lover because he wasn't family. "What does it take to be family?"

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A harried father tries to coach his small child to open a locked bathroom door.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
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Mother and daughter quarrel over the writing of the obligatory "thank you note," while Dad tunes out.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A woman is stuck in the attic and sends a note down on the cat's collar, hoping to be rescued by her sleeping husband -- who misinterprets it in a ...

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Dad proudly teaches his small child to read "walk" and "don't walk", then crosses against the light.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A middle-aged divorcee going out on a date is grilled like a teenager by her elderly father.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38