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S1 E1 Recognition
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Ben Lerman, an emergency medicine physician, describes how his ability to empathize with his patients deteriorated throughout his medical training,...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:31
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From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
An imaginary reckoning with Pope Francis
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:44
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Wilde's facility with words contributes to his undoing.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KKRN, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 17
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A classic drama from the Second World War.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KCHW, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 25
Going to St. Ives
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A doctor-patient relationship with harrowing repercussions.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 23
Snap 1001: This Is Not A Drill, 1/10/2019
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next all-NEW Snap… “This Is Not A Drill”. For 38 minutes in 2018, Hawaiians thought their world was about to end.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
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
Snap 623: Man On A Mission, 8/2/2018
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Snap #623 “Man On A Mission” — On the next Snap Judgment... "Man on a Mission." Lead, follow or get out of the way. It's amazing stories that will ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
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
Chasing Love (Clean)
From: Miguel Macias
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Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:42
  • 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
The defection of a Roger Ailes warrior
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
The Write Question - Deb Zoe Laufer - 300
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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New York playwright Deb Zoe Laufer discusses her work, Informed Consent, a play based on a court case between an indigenous tribe and the Arizona S...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Snap 710: The Performer, 9/14/2017
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Snap #819 "The Performer" -On the next Snap Judgment, "The Performer." The hardest character to play is the character without a script. Featuring s...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
Snap 707: The Promise, 8/31/2017
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next Snap, "The Promise." Some of them are worthless, some of them have infinite value, and some will never know how much they are worth... ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
Everything That Rises Must Converge
From: Susie Kahlich
Series: Artipoeus : art you can hear
Caption: Manifesto, Credit: Philip Newcombe 2017
Falling and getting up and falling again from grace. Artipoeus visits Philip Newcombe's MOSQUITO at gallery A Plus in Berlin.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 19:54