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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, San Francisco, CA 1/14/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck talks art as a bulwark, Caleb Deschanel’s preternatural powers, and what’s wrong with bio-pics.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 16:57
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
Caption: Damon Davis & Sabaah Folayan, San Francisco, CA 4/14/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis talk hypocrisy, reckless disregard, and modernized blackface.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 15:17
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An engaging conversation with both the playwright and director of the 2017 Tony-Award Winning Best Play, OSLO. The play tracks the back channel ne...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Direct action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling c...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
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
Caption: Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach, Credit: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:38
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August in Minnesota means a lot of things, mosquitos, jokes about the humidity, and swimming in the normally frozen lakes and rivers. It also mean...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Ed Asner
Starring Ed Asner and Jesse Eisenberg, in The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog, a deposed dictator’s beloved pet answers to the disenfranchis...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 2
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This Arts Interchange is about Jean Anouilh’s 1944 Antigone, inspired by the Sophocles play of the same name, which the IU Theater Department is pe...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:09:41
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Mika Kaurismaki talks power struggles, free will, and what Greta Garbo really wanted.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 11:08
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
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James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
Caption: Ziad Doueiri, San Francisco, CA 7/31/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ziad Doueiri talks facing monsters, freedom of speech, and refusing to play politics.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 24:48
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Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 16:35
Caption: Marjane Satrapi, San Francisco, CA 4/30/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Marjane Satrapi talks perspective, jasmine petals, and testifying before the Green Party members of the European Parliament in 2009 about the dispu...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 17:11
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Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]

Bought by WNJR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Roland Emmerich, Berkeley, CA 9/29/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 13:16
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A New Hampshire couple argues about environmental issues.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:35
Caption: Mitch Albom
Writer Mitch Albom's rabbi asked him to deliver his eulogy when he died. The ensuing eight years of meeting with the rabbi as well as working with ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 5
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Host Suzanne Kryder talks with actor Kathryn Blume (pictured above), star of her own one-woman show called "The Accidental Activist." Blume discuss...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1