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F. Murray Abraham - Manhattan White Pages
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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F. Murray Abraham, with a dramatic reading of the Manhattan White Pages.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Blackhead
From: Philip Armand
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Philip Armand explores a mysterious black dot on his nose and his parents buy him a used motorcycle.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 08:06
Episode 221: The aboutness of nothing
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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My friend Stretch claims to know more about nothing than anybody else on the planet. He said “believe me, there's a lot more to it than most peopl...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:45
Episode 220: Faraway places (or, What's it like in Lower Shmorgestan?)
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Marco always dreamed about traveling to faraway places. All his life, he had never been anywhere – unless you counted his grandmother's house, whi...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 04:42
Episode 219: Something about a misty morning ...
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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By the way, Vern swears there are no dragons in this story ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 04:11
Episode 218: What's your garden guardin'?
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Here's a little song in honor of the Springtime planting season ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
Renée Fleming - Characters from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Renée Fleming, reading a list of characters from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Alec Baldwin - The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, the “Hays Code”
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Alec Baldwin, reading from the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, the “Hays Code”

Bought by KUER, WUFT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 4
Garrison Keillor - List of Sections in a Bookstore, from Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Garrison Keillor, reading an excerpt from Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
John Lithgow - Royal Etiquette, or How to Behave When Presented to the Queen
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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John Lithgow, reading Royal Etiquette, or How to Behave When Presented to the Queen

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
Alec Baldwin - Irish Heroes & Heroines, from James Joyce's Ulysses
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Alec Baldwin, reading a list of Irish Heroes and Heroines, from James Joyce’s Ulysses

Bought by KUER, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 3
Barbara Rosenblat - Roman Catholic Patron Saints
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Barbara Rosenblat, reading a list of Roman Catholic patron saints

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
Dick Cavett - Newspaper Corrections
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Dick Cavett, reading a list of newspaper corrections

Bought by KUER, WUFT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 5
Alec Baldwin - Reported Side Effects of Ambien
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Alec Baldwin, reading the reported side effects of Ambien

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 6
Garrison Keillor - Reasons for Admission to a 19th-Century Insane Asylum
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Garrison Keillor, reading a list of reasons for admission to a 19th-century insane asylum

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 5
John Lithgow - Manhattan White Pages
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
Piece image
John Lithgow, with a dramatic reading of the Manhattan White Pages.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 3
Sue Taylor and Prince
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sue Taylor talks about saving a county, with music from the late Prince...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:20
Episode 217: Gee Cliff (or, The road to Gumption, concluded)
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Well, I'll say one thing about the Gumption Track: it's well-marked. The roadies did not skimp on signage, even though it seems like they never a...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:17
Episode 216: Send in the bees
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Here's another little song for the kids: when you think about it, bees are just Nature's miniature flying alarum clocks ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:53
Episode 215: The blue moon special
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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There were two new faces down at Elmer's Cafe the other day. I walked in the door, saw this young couple sitting on the six and seven stools, talk...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:13
Episode 214: The greatest philosophers of all time
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Theophilus Papadopoulos had to write an essay for school. It was supposed to be about a famous philosopher, and it couldn't be about anybody he kn...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 05:19
Episode 213: Whutta Butte (or, The road to Gumption, part three)
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Well, the rain never let up, from dawn till dusk ... although, in all fairness, I don't know if you could even call it a dawn, seeing as how nobody...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 05:15
Episode 212: Joe Mann, the self-rolling snowman
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Here's a little song about a snowman who rolled into town at the tail end of Winter ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:54
Episode 211: No shortcut to Glory
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking down the Yonder Track on our way to Glory not too long ago. You know Glory – the legendary city where all...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 05:53
Episode 210: The penny on the sidewalk
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Sue Spender was on her way to school one morning when she found a penny lying heads-down on the sidewalk. She wondered how it got there. Could it...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 06:32

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