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Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 4
The New Silence: a poem for the new climate
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
Crime novelist T Jefferson Parker takes to the slopes with “Crazy Blood”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In Parker’s 22nd book, it’s high noon up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Mammoth Falls, 7880 feet above sea level. The air smells like snow, memo...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Tom Owens, The Vegetarian
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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Our Killer meets her first victim

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
Chapter 2: Soldier of Fortune
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
Door Belle
From: Ryan Scammell
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The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You Into My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title fiel...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:38
Food for Thought
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A radio drama/semi-romance built on sound gathered during a field trip to southwestern India. Two American travelers, brought by chance to a tiny I...

  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 22:19
JULIA CHILD Presents "Lunch with M.F.K. Fisher"
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...

Bought by KSJD, KSFR, KZYX, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 4
I Think You Should Shut Up
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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A grumpy & annoyed person person speaks into a microphone for one minute and fifty seconds.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
A Welcome Home
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of a Maine foster mother who's taken in dozens of kids over the years.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Posthumously
From: Billy Senese
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A poem in memory of a true artist.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: 03:33
A Cook's Notebook: Fraud Pie
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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and she thought it was homemade...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Living Room
From: Ed Kliman
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The back-story of two people on a midnight drive to Texas is illuminated by the inclusion of the song Living Room. in this audiodrama short story

  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 05:21