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The Veldt Radio Edit (S3 | 132)
From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly
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“The Greatest Short Story of All Time?” Since childhood, the Ray Bradbury story, The Veldt, has fascinated me. It was one of the first stories tha...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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
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
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
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
The Extractor
From: The Truth
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The sounds we make don't just fade away; they're embedded in the wood around us.

Bought by WJCT, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 18:15
  • Purchases: 3
IBRT Season 2, Episode 7: 'Harry'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
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The say Sunday at 11am is the most segregated hour in America. But one of the nice things about this land of freedom to worship is that there seem...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:02
In Theory
From: Helena de Groot
Series: We're All Strangers
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When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
Interview with Mark Strand. November 11, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Mark Strand
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
Dark Times
From: Gumbeater
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The estate of Count Nicholas Herzen in the early years of the 20th century. The collapse of the Romanov dynasty in Russia is slowly unfolding, whic...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:08
N. M. Kelby's novel "White Truffles In Winter"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Heidi Holtan talks with N. M. Kelby about her latest novel that fictionally chronicles the experiences of famous French chef Auguste Encoffier.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 24:27
  • Purchases: 1
Whatchutalkin'bout?!
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 18:08
  • Purchases: 1
John Ottman
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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From 2006, John talks about the challenge of scoring Superman Returns and mixing his music with the themes of John Williams.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 27:39
The Tragedy of JULIUS CAESAR
From: Craig Wichman
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The true, timeless story of the ever-shifting lines between governance and oppresion, political action and violence.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, WAMU, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2008
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 3
"The swimming pool at the Econo-Lodge was empty."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Another woman in another bar. Another series of cocktails. Another story. Lean close to her and listen.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 10:33
  • Purchases: 2
Drizzle
From: Frederick Greenhalgh
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A random event changes one man's life forever

  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 15:08
H20
From: Melonie Magruder
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Futuristic Thriller with Environmental overtones, which pays homage to Radio Drama of the 30's and 40's

Bought by KGOU, KZYX, and WZBC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 53:20
  • Purchases: 3
The Last Christian Standing
From: Hans Anderson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Paul hopes to die a martyr, but no one wants to kill him at first. Then they all do.

Bought by East Village Radio, WUAL, and WZBC


  • Added: Feb 24, 2004
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 3