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What's the Word? American AIDS Drama
From: Modern Language Association
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A look at three landmark Amercian plays dealing with the AIDs crisis

Bought by WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRNC-LP, and KPFA


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? Al Pacino's Shakespeare
From: Modern Language Association
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Actor Al Pacino's mission to bring Shakespeare to a wider audience...

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
"One side is windy, the other is not."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
Wide Awake for Sleeper Cell
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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(non-spoiler) review of complete 8-hour season of Sleeper Cell on Showtime: strong series, innovative pacing

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 01:58
The Wire - Season 4 in 90 seconds
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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some superb original elements, but not as good as the first three seasons

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
Deja Vu-2 what really happened
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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what really happens in the movie...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:06
Deja Vu-1 review - no spoilers
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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excellent, intelligent treatment of time-travel paradox

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:13
Weep Not for Kidnapped
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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'tis the network that's dying, not fine television

  • Added: Dec 03, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
"I asked her to sing a song."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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First comes trust. Then comes control.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2
"This is how the story was told to me."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
"I can see you're concerned about torture."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The world is a dangerous place. Fortunately there are people willing to do anything to protect us. Absolutely anything.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 2
"On the afternoon of July 12, 1960..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Can the memories evoked by a forgotten perfume change a life?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Abyss
From: Ian Levenstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When In the world on your own...who can you trust?

  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:12
This I Believe - Rick Moody
From: This I Believe
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Novelist Rick Moody believes in the unlimited joy of reading a new book and interpreting its story.

Bought by WHFR, WMPG, WKMS, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Eve Ensler
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler believes naming things can break taboos and shatter silences.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUER, WEZU, KVNF, WEZU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 9
Memoir Cafe: Episode 25
From: Gary Smith
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33
RN Documentary: The First Newcomers
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Immigration to the Dutch Republic in the 17th century.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
To Hug or Not to Hug?
From: Steven Tagle
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This short audio essay questions the male aversion to heartfelt hugs.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2005
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Gathering - A Modern Thanksgiving Story
From: Barbara Simmons
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Reimagining the original Thanksgiving story

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 42
Interracial Marriage
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young bride-to-be in an interracial marriage tries to get reassurance from a hesitant sister who doesn't want to "take sides."

  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"
From: Sedge Thomson
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1
Hammering
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man teaches his young daughter to hammer a nail, but her failure echoes through life.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Runaway Dad
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man finally meets the son he abandoned 26 years ago; he's prepared to face rage, but not indifference.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Broadway Memories
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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From a riot in 1849 to today’s regulars at Barrymore’s Bar, how a street became the universal symbol of live theater.

Bought by PRX Remix, Audible, and WFUV


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 3

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