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Laverne Cox, Sam Feder: Trans Lives Depend on Owning Our Stories
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

Bought by WORT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Mark Greaney discusses "Relentless"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Mark Greany is the author of twenty novels.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 11:42
StoryCorps: Mike McKenney and Bob VanSumeren
From: StoryCorps
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Bob VanSumeran served 6 years in prison for robberies he committed as a teenager. During that time, he developed an unlikely friendship with the fa...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:51
YOU NEED THERAPY: James Stevenson Award Winning Comedies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Tony Shalhoub
Featuring Tony Shalhoub ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," The Band's Visit) and Kristine Nielsen (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus), YOU NEED THERAPY...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
A perpetrator priest speaks out — in dialogue with a survivor
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Today, the...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Steven Cole Hughes and Heather Hughes — The heart of theater
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with theatre storytellers, Heather Hughes and Steven Cole Hughes.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
A survivor and her perpetrator find justice
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:15
Experimental Fiction Writer Diane Williams
From: New Letters on the Air
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Diane Williams, a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize for Fiction is the author of eight books, and the editor of the acclaimed literary journa...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2018 Great River Shakespeare Festival: Tonia Sina, Intimacy Directing
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Doug Scholz-Carlson, Tonia Sina, Credit: Bill Stoneberg
On this episode of Art Beat we talk to Tonia Sina about Intimacy Directing at the Great River Shakespeare Festival. Tonia is the founder and direct...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The World Only Spins Forward: Isaac Butler on Angels In America
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Isaac Butler, co-author of The World Only Spins Forward
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Joanna Wright and Tara Cummings
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joanna Wright and her friend Tara Cummings talk about surviving years of abuse at a religious reform school in Louisiana.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gun Show by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Bobby Cannavale
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely GUN SHO...

Bought by KUNM, KZYX, and KUER


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Man of His Time by Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...

Bought by KZYX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 32:06
  • Purchases: 2
Dissenting Adults: Two short plays by David Auburn and Leland Frankel
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Martha Plimption
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Changing of the Guard: Two short plays by Max Baker and James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Geraldine Hughes
CHANGING OF THE GUARD features two short comedies about getting outpaced by a world zooming way ahead. In The Mandela Effect, written and directed...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, and WHRV


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
American Pianists Association
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: American Pianists Association, Credit: www.americanpianists.org
We’ll hear about a contest with the five finalists for the APA - the American Pianists Association on this episode of What’s New!

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Decade of Dope
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
10,000 KM -- Carlos Marques-Marcet Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Carlos Marques-Marcet, San Francisco, CA 6/24/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Carlos Marques-Marcet talks cracks, gender politics, and the language of sex.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 15:40
The Creative Imagination of Playwright Don Samson
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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
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
Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chelsea Cain discusses "One Kick"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Chelsea Snow Cain is an American novelist and columnist.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 23:51
"James Rollins discusses The 6th Extinction"
From: Steven Nester
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
Author Carl Hoffman discusses "Savage Harvest"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Carl Hoffman is a journalist who has written for many publications.

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 20:57
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2