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A master of fiction, Neil Gaiman reads from his latest book with the curious, clever title, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances. Per t...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
A book partly inspired by a Persian myth about a boy raised by a bird! Read by author Porochista Khakpour. Part of our daily series for June.
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Science fiction drama.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
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
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
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
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
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
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
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
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
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
A harried father tries to coach his small child to open a locked bathroom door.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
Mother and daughter quarrel over the writing of the obligatory "thank you note," while Dad tunes out.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
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
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
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
Two-Minute Danger Theater is a daily comedy module chronicling the adventures of The Voice, Blake Diamond, and Commander Ranger and Cadet Nancy of ...
Bought by WCOM
- Added: Dec 17, 2003
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Two-Minute Danger Theater is a daily comedy module chronicling the adventures of The Voice, Blake Diamond, and Commander Ranger and Cadet Nancy of ...
Bought by WCOM
- Added: Nov 30, 2003
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Two-Minute Danger Theater is a daily comedy module chronicling the adventures of The Voice, Blake Diamond, and Commander Ranger and Cadet Nancy of ...
Bought by WCOM
- Added: Nov 30, 2003
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Two-Minute Danger Theater is a daily comedy module chronicling the adventures of The Voice, Blake Diamond, and Commander Ranger and Cadet Nancy of ...
Bought by WCOM
- Added: Nov 30, 2003
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
