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2250: Writing John Wick + A Conversation with Channing Godfrey Peoples, 12/15/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story writer Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick franchise reflects on his thrilling career, how he weaves emotion and humanity...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
A Lesson Before Dying
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 11
GN_6.47_ Tutus in the Hood
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Ballerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it, in a ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Dr. Hassan Tetteh: Change Means Growth
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Credit: Shefik
Change - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, research a...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:27
Neat
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A solo performance from a master storyteller.

Bought by KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, WNJR, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Playwright & Performer Anna Deavere Smith
From: New Letters on the Air
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Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cake and Pie
From: Lauren Barnes
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Little girl journeys all over New Orleans to find her role model.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:15
Detroit As Backdrop For Shakespeare
From: Rendered
Caption: Shakespeare In Detroit's Romeo & Juliet, Credit: courtesy of Shakespeare in Detroit
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 19:51
The Writ Writer - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Scipio A. Jones, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
12 YEARS A SLAVE -- Lupita Nyong'o Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Lupita Nyong'o, San Francisco, CA 10/12/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lupita Nyong’o talks honoring the characters, giving voice to the voiceless, and meeting Solomon Northup’s descendants.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: A.P. Tureaud Jr. and Steven Walkley
From: StoryCorps
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A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
THE HELP -- Writer/director Tate Taylor and co-star Octavia Spencer
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Tate Taylor and Octavia Spencer, San Francisco, CA 7/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
THE HELP -- Writer/director Tate Taylor and co-star Octavia Spencer talk history, inspiration, and book reports.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
HARRIET'S RETURN by Karen Jones Meadows
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
Series: Theatre from the Land of Enchantment
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A radio drama based upon the legendary life of Harriet Tubman, written and performed by Karen Jones Meadows..

Bought by KUNM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:31:07
  • Purchases: 3
An Unlikely Partnership
From: KVMR
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A California State Prisoner/Poet and a Swedish Classical Composer create "Frihet for de fanga" (Freedom for the prisoners)

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1