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Through the Narrows
From: Chris Griffith
Caption: 6-year old Chootch and 3,500 year-old Elli, Credit: Bruce Silcox
Award-winning puppetry artists Shari Aronson and Chris Griffith of Z Puppets Rosenschnoz share stories of two characters from their own ancestry: a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2020
  • Length: 51:51
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
Debs In Canton
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....

Bought by KUNM and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 2
Lux The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Rad...

Bought by KSLU, KECG, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:43
  • Purchases: 3
Lux Presents The Jazz Singer
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Ra...

Bought by KSLU, KECG, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 3
Lux Presnets The Thin Man
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Ra...

Bought by KSLU, KECG, KMXT, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 4
Lux Presents Clark Gabel
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Ra...

Bought by KSLU, KECG, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Devil's Disciple
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Richard Dreyfuss stars in George Bernard Shaw's surprising tale.

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


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 27
Friendly and Not-So-Friendly Ghosts in Richmond, Virginia
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Beth and Chris Houlihan
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
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From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
Sisters Matsumoto
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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After years in an internment camp, a Japanese-American family struggles to adjust to their new lives.

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
COLD WAR -- Pawel Pawlikowski Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Pawel Pawlikowski talks the honesty of black-and-white, non-political nostalgia, and eschewing extraneous exposition.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2019
  • Length: 16:19
Death Valley Days
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. Giants, aliens, underground cities of gold!

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Masonic Theatre Drop Restoration with Kim Lawler
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Masonic Theatre Drops, Credit: Bill Stoneberg
On this episode of Art Beat we talk to Kim Lawler, a scenic artist who has been hired to lead the restoration of 13 historic backdrops at the Mason...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 18:27
Fake by Eric Simonson
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A detective story about the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 20
Moving Bodies
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Alfred Molina stars as the brilliant, irreverent physicist.

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KKRN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Tartuffe
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story that began its life under a cloud of controversy.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 16
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Wilde's facility with words contributes to his undoing.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KKRN, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 17
The Real Dr. Strangelove
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The birth of Armageddon

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 20
The Bungler
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A clever valet helps his clueless, bumbling master get the girl of his dreams.

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 15
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A turning point in American free speech.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, WCPN, KFCF FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 21
Mystery Monday
From: William Taylor
Series: Mystrey Monday
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Mystery Monday is a series of one hour program that features vintage radio mystery programs from the 1930's through the 1950's.

Bought by KMUN, WCNY, WWNO, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 4
Crookston teacher and actor bring Minnesota's "first" First Lady, Sarah Sibley to life!
From: KSRQ
Series: Times Past
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Connie Hannesson of Crookston, Minnesota received a quick turnaround grant from the NWMAC for a 1850s costume, for a re-enactment of Minnesota's "f...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 10:40

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