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Serendipity: The Winners of the First Annual Sarah Awards
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Caption: Serendipity Logo, Credit: Courtesy The Sarah Awards
KCRW presents a special one-hour edition of Serendipity, the podcast of the Sarah Lawrence College International Audio Fiction Awards. This broadca...

Bought by WCQS


  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
For Lynda Pt. 4
From: Kendra Dobson
Series: Columbus Myth
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:32
Cosmic Connections: Two Short Plays by David Auburn and David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Amy Ryan
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Great Expectations part two
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Pip returns to Miss Havisham's and learns the secrets of Satis House.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 27:41
All Well and Good: Two Short Plays by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Kelly Hutchinson
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...

Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Impossible Enchantment
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Join us for the perfect bedtime story full of kings, queens, princes, princesses, fairies, merfolk, giant eagles, trained cats, magic, and lessons ...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
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
Teaming Up: Two Short Comedies by Kim Merrill and Lanford Wilson
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

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


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Summer Session
From: Mackenzie Martin
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A classic radio drama adapted for KUST radio from the short story "Summer Session" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
Vets and Nets
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Pen and Paper
From: E. C. Bond
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An Audio Drama about table-top, pen and paper role playing games.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 43:00
Pygmalion Festival Lit Crawl: Live from The Esquire Lounge
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Featuring writers from the 2014 Pygmalion Literary Fest LitCrawl, recorded live at The Esquire Lounge in Chapaign, IL. Readers in this episode incl...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
The Juniper Tree
From: KUER
Series: Radio Hour
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KUER's RadioWest and Salt Lake City's Plan B Theatre Company present The Juniper Tree, adapted for radio from the Grimm Fairy Tale.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:25
The Birds and the Bees
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Nancy Hightower reads from Elementari Rising (5/15)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Science fiction drama.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Food and Wine Books in the News
From: The Book Report
Series: The Book Report
Caption: Elaine Charles, Credit: Former Library of Congress and Miami Herald staffer
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 54:10
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
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Dead Beatle
From: William Hrdina
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It's Sherlock Holmes Vs. The Beatles in one of the great detectives most bizarre cases.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 15:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Fall of the House of Usher
From: Kevin Herren
Series: Macabre Mansion Presents...
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"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" starring Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy and Jim O'Rear. An Audio Drama adaptation of the classic...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tom Owens, The Vegetarian
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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Our Killer meets her first victim

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
Novelist Alex George
From: New Letters on the Air
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After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 2: Soldier of Fortune
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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What if the curse that ruined your life could be turned into a money making proposition? “Everyone I have ever spent New Year’s Eve with has died ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 07:28