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Dancing at the Crematorium - by Offramp
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Defiantly dancing in the midst of grief

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 03:24
The Untold Story of Radiant Vermin as Produced by the SCSU Theater Department
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Radiant Vermin is magical realism allegory that tackles the concepts and misconceptions of homelessness in a way that only theater is able. In tod...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:58
That Which Is But Isn't
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Monster By My Side
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2019
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My name is Aline Guadalupe Aguilar. This is my first audio fiction piece. It’s about the struggle a person has when it comes to their inner demons.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
Listening in the Dark 5: The Music of Eric Zann
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
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H.P. Lovecraft's story is transported to radio's golden age for this drama about a failing violinist who holds the key to saving the world.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2019
  • Length: 45:55
THE LAST BROADCAST
From: Marc Powell
Caption: BELI-E-E-E-VE
KBBX radio Journalist Charlie O'Dowd bites off more than he can chew after strong-arming an informant into an interview that reveals a lethal consp...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 12:18
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A contentious and comedic look at the fear, superstition, and silence that characterized the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

Bought by KKRN, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 18
GREAT Theatre and KVSC Radio Present Nigh of the Living Dead!
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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Before Southerners hid in prisons and had to deal with barbed wire baseball bats and governors . . . Before the overrun shopping malls . . . Bef...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:54
S2 E8 All That Jazz
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Psychiatrist Matthew Hirschtritt turns to lessons from his Jewish upbringing when caring for a patient with severe refractory depression.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
S1 E3 Out Of The Way
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospitalist Ann Knapp navigates her own doubts and assumptions when her patient, a ninety-year-old man, states he wants to die -- today.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:25
Skinwalker Ranch
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Estimate of the Situation
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Bloodshed on the desert highway.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Incident at Vichy/Arthur Miller: A Life
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A dark World War Two tale, plus an original docudrama about its author

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, WOUB, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 12
Blue/Orange
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Joe Penhall's powerful work about schizophrenia.

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 20
Broken Glass
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Caption: JoBeth Williams
A probing psychological drama from Arthur Miller.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, WNJR, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 18
Mimi's Guide
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Frances Conroy stars as the muse of a poet who's consumed by the past

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KCHW, WNJR, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 13
2018 Christmas Radio Show: 1938 Noir
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Theatre du Mississippi's Christmas Radio Show 2018, Credit: Kelli Knobloch
It came upon a murder clear… It’s this years Christmas Radio Show. The time is Christmas 1938, the setting is Winona, MN, the theme… murder. On thi...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:36:33
The White Whale
From: Matt Frassica
Caption: Michael Gorman and Alan Barnes Netherton in "Chasing the New White Whale", Credit: Carlos Cardona
Opiate addiction has become increasingly common in the commercial fishing industry. For one Massachusetts-born playwright, a brother’s death from a...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 09:30
Theseus and the Minotaur
From: dan dewes
Series: By Kids For Kids Story Time
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The people of Athens are terrorised by a ferocious beast, a hideous creature, half-man, and half-bull, called the Minotaur. But one brave hero rise...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 10:15
  • Purchases: 1
Wildwood Park: A Short Thriller Starring Denis O'Hare
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: American Horror Story's Denis O'Hare, Credit: FX Networks
Denis O’Hare (“American Horror Story”, Tony winner for Take Me Out), and Kristine Nielsen (Tony nominee for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) st...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 02: She Looked Into Infinity
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In mourning at his wife's grave, Edgar Poe encounters unnatural and supernatural beings.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:00
Episode 03: Beneath the Cold Moon
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
As he lies dying in the hospital, Edgar Poe drifts in and out of consciousness, mingling strange dreams with the sounds of the hospital.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
Episode 04: Deliriously Sweet, Teardrops Fall
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the hospital where he lies dying, alarming sensations bleed into Edgar Poe's fevered hallucinations.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Episode 05: The Pain
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Mourning for his lost love compels Edgar Poe to inhabit his poem "The Raven."

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
Episode 06: The Ray of Sunken Suns
From: Blue Bliss
Series: Poe: The Raven-Winged Hours
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe is confronted by his doppelganger and has some words with a mummy.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:26