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Bob Dylan-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Bob Dylan, Credit: 1961
Join us for a celebration of Bob Dylan's Birthday with Bob Fass, Big Joe Turner, Al Kooper, Les Crane, The Band, Richard Ashcroft, John Hammond, Em...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:06
  • Purchases: 1
The New Silence: a poem for the new climate
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • 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
Cadabra Records: The Creepiest Vinyl Around
From: Matt Mitchell
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One man's vision led to a vinyl-only record company producing albums of spoken-word horror literature. And the craziest part? It's flourishing.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 20, 2018
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Cask of Amontillado
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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The classic Poe tale of vengeance full of irony, horror, and alcohol

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 07, 2015
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 1
GUEST: Haushka (Volker Bertelmann) + REMIX: Sergey Suokas + Claudia Rankine
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
GUESTS: Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel + Kurt Schwitters 1932 (REMIX)
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:13
GUEST: Loscil (Scott Morgan) + REMIX: Philip K Dick
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:48
GUESTS: Pauline Oliveros + Steve Reich
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
Pretty LIT 2.1
From: BJ Love
Series: Pretty LIT
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Featuring some totally pretty literature by Mike Young, Montreux Rotholtz, Ted Berrigan, Jeff Hipsher, Josephine Rowe, Eric Baus, and Elizabeth Bis...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:37
Other People's Stories
From: Tobin Low
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When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
The legacy of Harry Crews
From: With Good Reason
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Capes and Corsets
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chicks who dig comics, fighting the epic battle against sexism

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 4
Hungry in Winter: The Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 49:35
Seller of Dreams
From: Claes Andreasson
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A sound-rich fairy tale by Henry Beston

  • Added: Oct 01, 2011
  • Length: 15:29
E.A. Poe and the Krautrock Connection
From: Iain Wilson
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The latest audio story from FOTW Audio Productions; featuring the music of The Fascination Movement, Carlos Perón, and Olmec Head.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:10
3 Great American Voices
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: Julia Child
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 6
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Hungry for the Holidays, with Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
Julia Child takes us back in time, presenting 2 stories -- "A Christmas Carol," read by the actor Peter Donat; and "I Was Really Very Hungry," writ...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KWIT, Boise State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 54:49
  • Purchases: 41
HUNGRY: Julia Child Presents "A Dickens Holiday Feast"
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
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Julia says, "'A Christmas Carol' is a lovely story to read during the holidays, because it has a happy ending." The actor Peter Donat takes us to V...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KMUD, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 25:44
  • Purchases: 19
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Show 2: Dylan and the Three Kings
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King in Folk Mode
Radical Solitude in "Just Like a Woman" and a Radio Drama

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 8
Traveling Light
From: With Good Reason
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If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it's probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses, it's usually pa...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
You Sound like You're Not from Around Here
From: With Good Reason
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Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 29:42
Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye To Kerouac (EDITED language version w/ ID break)
From: Sue Zizza
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida ( edited language version ) ----- for unedited explicit language version go to ---...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KAAD-LP, WCBE, KMXT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31