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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 59:07
It's evident author Michael J. Martinez is enjoying writing this series where "worlds collide." He reads from the first book, The Daedalus Incident...
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 01:40
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
Author Charles Spencer reads from his gripping book (a best seller in England), "Killers of The King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I." Just...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Timothy Spall talks paring things down, letting the character tell you what to do, and the lexicon of the grunt.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 25, 2014
- Length: 22:41
- Purchases: 1
From: john rabe
Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 18:40
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
The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 03:14
The life of Charlotte Cushman who specialized in playing Romeo in the mid-1800s
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 21:16
In his plays, Shakespeare alluded to songs his audience would know. Today we don't know those songs so we don't get a lot of the references.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 1
Matthew and Thomas sit down and have a chat.....
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
During the first generation of American psychiatry, no figure was cited as an authority on insanity and mental functioning more frequently than Wil...
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 18:11
The story of the Robben Island Shakespeare, smuggled into South Africa's Robben Island Prison.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 09, 2014
- Length: 18:41
- Purchases: 1
James Lee Burke discusses "Wayfaring Stranger"
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 21:55
Few people have ever been to Bly, Oregon. Fewer people know the story of what happened at Bly. Here's the story behind the plaque.
- Added: Jul 20, 2014
- Length: 15:01
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
The history of Shakespeare outdoors
- Added: Jun 18, 2014
- Length: 31:16
Chris Mason Johnson talks being alert, Rock Hudson as a touchstone, and perplexing Millennials.
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 18:10
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 29:25
- Purchases: 1
Carl Hoffman is a journalist who has written for many publications.
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 20:57
Programmer and Film Noir expert Elliot Lavine talks opaque experiences, waking dreams states, and why a film is always better sitting in the dark w...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 22:06
- Purchases: 1
