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Hungry at the Homesick Restaurant: the Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
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Anne Tyler has a new book out! "The Beginner's Goodbye." Here Julia Child presents passages from an earlier Anne Tyler favorite, "Dinner at the Hom...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 24:58
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
Lean & Hungry Theater Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
From: Lean & Hungry Theater
Caption: Original Broadcast Promotional Art, Credit: Aaron Hansen
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in the Prohibition Era, with live sound effects and some of the finest S...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KREV-LP, KUT, WMNF, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 5
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
Restful, Shady Places
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The authors of "Trailer Ahoy!" and "Trees as Good Citizens" enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hungry Valentine, with Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia and Paul's Valentine, Credit: Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts
Happy Valentine's from Julia Child! This one-hour special was started years ago but never aired till now. She presents two love stories that have t...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WYAP, KAAD-LP, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 28
Megan Abbott discusses "Bury Me Deep"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award winning novelist."Bury Me Deep" is her fourth book.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:55
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
JULIA CHILD Presents "Lunch with M.F.K. Fisher"
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...

Bought by KSJD, KSFR, KZYX, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 4
CHICKEN A LA STEINBECK
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: John Steinbeck, Credit: FANPIX.net
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 26:55
  • Purchases: 5
Insects, Frogs, and Women
From: Walker Mettling
Series: the sparkle*
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Darker stories of love and coming of age by Providence's most exciting new writers.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:26
Raymond Carver Reads What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: Cover, Times Book Review 11/22/09, Credit: Ruth Gwili
The 2015 Best Picture has drawn from Raymond Carver's WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, his most famous story; he reads it in his own voi...

Bought by WRGY, KRCB 104.9, KUER, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
This Poem
From: Ken Cormier
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A poet introduces his work.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
Sunday Morning Self Amusement
From: Scott Meyers
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A poem written & read by Scott Meyers

  • Added: May 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:00
Tell Me A Story: Author Performances by ZZ Packer and Julie Orringer
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: ZZ Packer, Credit: Marion Ettlinger
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 56:17
Bozo and the Storyteller
From: Tom Thumb
Caption: Available from www.bozoandthestoryteller.com
Chapter one of the book for anyone who never really grew up

  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 18:31
"Read all instructions first."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Arrange all materials within reach. Make yourself comfortable. Begin.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
"This is how the story was told to me." (V3.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Travel. Adventure. Romance. Inexplicable narratives from the man in the window seat.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
KidTales: Wind in the Willows Ch. 2
From: KTNA
Series: KidTales: The Wind in the Willows
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
KidTales: Wind in the Willows Ch. 1
From: KTNA
Series: KidTales: The Wind in the Willows
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Three Timeless Tales of Reginald Bretnor
From: Fred Flaxman
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Dramatic readings of three humorous Bretnor short stories.

Bought by KWMR, KWMR, WRTU, and WUFT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2007
  • Length: 54:27
  • Purchases: 4
"What's your opinion of memory?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
"What do you want me to tell you?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The interview was just a formality, but the results were highly unexpected.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 1
"I could tell you stories, but I don't think you want to hear them."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Imagine yourself in a bar, the sort of old fashioned place with dark wood and red leather booths and the ghosts of a million cigarettes. You order...

Bought by KUNM and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:17
  • Purchases: 2