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Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Jesse Eisenberg is both playwright and actor in this satirical short play about an anxious young hipster absurdly co-opting the tragedy of Septembe...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 16:49
Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg star in You Belong to Me by Daniel Reitz. Two old friends from grad school, played by Amy Ryan ( Gone, Baby, Gone) a...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 17:49
Starring Marsha Mason and Steven Boyer. In the short comedy, TASHA WALKS, a young man (Steven Boyer, Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD, NBC's "Trial & E...
- Added: Jun 23, 2016
- Length: 16:14
Take radars, magnetrons, and dielectric heating; add two teenagers; mix and get lots of heat in this funny short about a teenage first date. Winner...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 25:55
Starring Carol Kane, Julie White, Lois Smith; written by Tony winner John Guare; directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes is Something I’ll Tell You Tue...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 34:03
KCRW presents a special one-hour edition of Serendipity, the podcast of the Sarah Lawrence College International Audio Fiction Awards. This broadca...
Bought by WCQS
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, WHRV, and KUNM
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 05:13
What It Is Like Working at a Funeral Home
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with playwright Don Samson, who discusses his work and creative process and his former life as the author of legal briefs for ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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
All the world's a stage, and it's full of smaller stages. We have interviews with two interns who have found their own stages. Kaitie Marshall disc...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:58
From: john rabe
Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
San Francisco seems to jump at any excuse to throw off daily wear in favor of something more theatrical. That explains why around 2500 people showe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 1
Hearing music from an inanimate object - auditory hallucination or talking fan?
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 03:52
Author Nicole C. Kear reads from her memoir of learning of a life-changing disease as a teen. Amusing, touching, and part of our daily readings -- ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
In which the theme of "February" is explored and heightened.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 17:50
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
Strangers on a train, partners in crime - the two great art forms of the twentieth century meet. As film composers incorporated new sounds into th...
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 29:01
An Antarctic research expedition finds something frozen deep in the ice cap...something that is still alive.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 35:26
Bank tellers on the lam for theft and an accidental homicide flee to the wilds of upper New York state, en route to Canada. But they soon realize t...
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 24:05
On a rainy Saturday afternoon, a proper English family finds itself debating what to do with an uninvited guest on the sunporch...
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 29:23