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Jay's world is falling apart. He gets harsh warnings that his welfare payments are at risk at the unemployment benefits office. Jay's pal Owen sp...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 10:44
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Jay is starting to crack up. He sets up a drugs deal. He tries to record the "voices" that he's hearing.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 09:37
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Jay's ex Jackie confides in their daughter Fi. Terry, Jay's brother, suggests Jay should write a letter to Don to "resolve any misunderstanding". ...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 11:59
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"Here's to the risk-takers. The ones who seek adventure. The people who never give up and never back down. The ones who stand up for what's right a...

Bought by KTXK and WUAL


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Christ Child and Hans Trapp in Alsace (1863 illustration), Credit: Public Domain
Santa Claus knows when you've been bad or good ... so what happens when you've been very naughty? According to French legend, the black knight Hans...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
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When you hear the crackle of the fire and see the shadows dance behind the trees...you know it's time for another Snap Judgment's "Campfire Tales."

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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United 173 crashed six miles short of the runway at Portland, Oregon. It had run out of fuel. Ten people were killed. How could that happen?

  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:42
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There is a line, drawn in the sand, shake on it, mark it in blood, but if you cross it... there is no going back. On the next Snap Judgment, from P...

  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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Author Jonah Kruvant reads a compelling highlight from his forthcoming futuristic novel, The Last Book Ever Written.... Are we heading into a socie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Snap Judgment
Sure they want to take your picture, have your autograph... but for all the wrong reasons. On the next Snap Judgment, from PRX and NPR, we proudly ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
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Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.

Bought by WJCT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:30
  • Purchases: 2
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An intelligent race of animals aims to exterminate violent mankind. Robert Repino reads from his book, Morte. Another in our authentic contemporary...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Do you believe in Bigfoot? This reading from Mrs. Wakeman Vs. The Antichrist by author Robert Damon Schneck is part of our weekday 100-second free ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currently lives in a ghost town somewhere in Colorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, was ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:50
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
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Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
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At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes. [26:52]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, KPIP-LP, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 26:52
  • Purchases: 4
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Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:55:29
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
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A canvasser gets the donation she needs, but it will cost her.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 14:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3