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Inside Voice by Kate Robin
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Kate Robin
In Kate Robin's Inside Voice, two parents watching their toddlers having fun in an indoor playground take on the big wide world beyond. Hear an exc...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 33:45
Misadventure by Donald Margulies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies' Misadventure. In ...

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 2
Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: April Matthis
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:56
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
Happy by Alan Zweibel
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Scott Adsit
In Alan Zweibel’s short play Happy, a baseball fan (Scott Adsit of “30 Rock” and “Veep”) makes a pilgrimage to the home of a former baseball star w...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 34:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
A Departure by Andy Reynolds
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Len Cariou
In Andy Reynolds' A Departure, a father and son (stage legend Len Cariou and ”Ugly Betty’s” Michael Urie) bond in the most unlikely of places - an ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:15
Cell by Cassandra Medley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Condola Rashad
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...

Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Her Road of Trials, Episode 102
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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Meet hustler La’Kia Young. She could be anyone, anywhere with a past paved in rubble and pain but her perseverance proves that failure isn't final.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 21:12
Making Her Bed
From: Matthew Simonson
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19 million Americans are affected by hoarding. Cape Cod resident Maryanne found help through Clutterer's Anonymous. She is dedicated to improving h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
A Father's Love: Two short plays by Lynn Rosen and Andy Reynolds
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Bill Irwin
Starring Bill Irwin, Steven Boyer, Len Cariou, Michael Urie. A FATHER’S LOVE celebrates the unbreakable bond that exists between fathers and childr...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WHRV, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
RDD: Day Trader to Master Gardener
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we meet Hal Mann, the president of the Wild Ones Oak Openings Region Chapter. Find out what Wild Ones d...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 1
We'll Be Fine: Three Short Plays by Donald Margulies, Julia Cho, and Max Baker
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Timothee Chalamet
Timothee Chalamet, Zoe Kazan, Ciaran Hinds, Geraldine Hughes star in three humorous shorts in which love trumps panic, insecurity and anxiety! In ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Georgia Public Broadcasting, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Freedom in the Wings: Two short plays by Tanya Barfield and Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...

Bought by KSKQ, KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
‘26 Pebbles’ shows how a community comes together to find hope, light and resolution in the wake of tragedy.
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Playwright Eric Ulloa with his first interview subject, Joanie, Credit: Eric Ulloa
In the aftermath of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, actor and writer Eric Ulloa went to Newtown, Connecticut and asked the re...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
Lending A Hand: Two Short Plays by Cusi Cram and Arlene Hutton
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander, Peter Jacobson, Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg star in two short, touching and humorous plays about stepping up when you are neede...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, KUNM, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond Your Control: Two short plays by David Auburn and Mike Reiss
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Peter Gallagher
Ed Asner, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Gallagher, Elizabeth Ashley and others star in two shorts about fatherhood, and fathers who don’t always enjoy a s...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WCPN, WHRV, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Decade of Dope
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Lana on Lana
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:39
Forward Observer: A short play by Willy Holtzman
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried VA hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giving her a hard time a...

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
Beyond Glory - Three short pieces by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Stephen Lang
"As starkly moving as taps at dusk" says the Washington Post about BEYOND GLORY, a powerful tribute to military valor written and performed by stag...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KWIT and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 14
SOLD -- Jeffrey D. Brown and Sushmita Mukherjee Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jeffrey D. Brown and Sushmita Mukherjee, San Francisco, CA 4/4/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jeffrey D. Brown and Sushmita Mukherjee talk darkness, light, and walking the razor’s edge,

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 23:08
Episode 12: Avalanche on Pikes Peak
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
Caption: Pikes Peak
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:02
Episode 7: Man vs. Machine
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Micah Schweizer was skiing in the back-country when he uttered a curse against snowmobilers. But you know what they say—be careful what you wish for.

Bought by KUER, KRZA, HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 5
RDD: Connecting Through Cancer (part 2) - The Story of Nate
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets Nate Jones. He's a former patient of the non-profit outreach program, Cancer Connection of ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:00