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Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
Caption: Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
Two tales of terror from the Icebox Radio Theater. It's an hour filled to the brim with the true 'spirit' of Halloween.

Bought by 'The Sea', KMUN, WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 5
Dead Conversations
From: Brian Garcia
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Episode four of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
Dead at 30
From: Devin Katayama
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Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
StoryCorps: Mytokia Fair and Thomas Fair
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
The Author's Corner on Public Radio: "A Guilty Man Should Not Sleep So Soundly"
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JULY 2014
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Author Antonia Hodgson reads from her historical novel, The Devil In The Marshalsea." Just one of our daily readings for July. The Author's Corner ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Poet and Painter Hadara Bar-Nadav
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Hadara Bar-Nadav refers to many works of art in her 2012 collection THE FRAME CALLED RUIN, while in her 2013 collection, LULLABY (WITH EXIT SI...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #34 - Necessity Defense
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:04
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 4: Call Your Mom
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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There are plenty of things we don’t share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you’re both in the business of death.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 4
47: The Heartbeat
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A radio drama adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 36:05
Episode 1: Animal Instincts
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2001, a woman was found dead in a pool of her own blood. Her husband was convicted of her murder. But a curious neighbor had a different theory…...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, HowSound, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 18:35
  • Purchases: 5
Jazz on Film
From: D. Christine
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Strangers on a train, partners in crime - the two great art forms of the twentieth century meet. As film composers incorporated new sounds into th...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Thirty
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: Dan Lawton
Dan Lawton talks of his first assignment as a crime reporter in the 7th Ward of New Orleans.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:27
Fine Dining
From: The Truth
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Of all the five senses, taste is the most intimate.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WRIR, KFAI Minneapolis, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 23:12
  • Purchases: 7
You're Not Alone
From: The Truth
Caption: Mandolin & Guitar, Credit: by Pablo Picasso
Are you hearing voices? You're not alone.

Bought by KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 17:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Fall of the House of Usher
From: Kevin Herren
Series: Macabre Mansion Presents...
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"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" starring Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy and Jim O'Rear. An Audio Drama adaptation of the classic...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Island
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Frenchboro is a tiny island off the coast of Maine with 35 year round residents. The Lunt family has fished its waters for over 200 years. This leg...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:50
Project One Day
From: Poetic Violence
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A brief program synopsis : This is an audio piece describing the life of a typical male in the western world. From womb to tomb. This is my first...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 24:40
SUSPENSE #2- 'The Pipes of Tcho Ktlan'
From: John Alsedek
Series: SUSPENSE
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A two-timing, larcenous 1940’s swing band leader steals a forbidden Far East melody and uses it as the basis for a hit song…only to find out too la...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 25:31
"Country Noir" and fiction writer Daniel Woodrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Two of Daniel Woodrell's eight novels are now acclaimed films. The 1998 movie RIDE WITH THE DEVIL was adapted from his novel WOE TO LIVE ON, and th...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
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
Bob Boxley
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detail of Bob Boxley's portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B. Klein
Monsters? Attempted suicide? The "second hand smoke" of insanity? Bob will be the 1st to admit that clinical psychology requires a bit of a split-...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Shadows in Gold
From: Will Rogers
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When he first came to America, Professor Nicholas Jenkins rented a car and set out on a leisurely drive through the hills of California. But then, ...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2