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Mark Shaff is a first time published author of the thriller Redemption Road. The book is receiving rave reviews, reads like an action movie, and is...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 17:43
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With Cheryl Renee Seagraves, El Phoenix Farris and Rene Shultz. The roundtable focuses on why they believe the indie author is a real competitor fo...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 18:41
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring South African Flutist Wouter Kellerman, International Fusion Music Star Ricky Kej...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:20
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Join author, folklorist and storyteller Gerald Hausman for his monthly series A Good Day For A Story. Sit back, listen and enjoy some fun stories o...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 18:08
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A year after a barbaric childbirth, complete with a near-death experience and an encounter with her guardian angel, Angie Edmonds is just happy she...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 19:15
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What if you could live in a world where everyone had enough? Where financial struggle would not exist, and where involuntary unemployment and pover...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:42
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Enter an upside-down world where Soviet henchmen botched their mission to eliminate John F. Kennedy fifty years ago, slaying his wife Jackie instea...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 19:46
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When her engagement was broken off just days before her wedding, Mona was forced to deal with the heartache, embarrassment and financial ramificati...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 18:36
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On a balmy Tuesday during the summer before ninth grade, a car accident on a rain-slicked highway flipped Janna’s safe and happy world upside down,...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 17:45
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From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.

Bought by WCNY, KPIP-LP, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Drugs, sex and advertising...not necessarily in that order. In Ad Nomad, the Case Histories of Dane Bacchus, we enter the world of pharmaceutical a...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 22:07
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China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/6/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase
Director James Ponsoldt talks dignity, Geiger counters of honesty, and where to get a great piece of pie.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 13:54
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Poet Ruth Nolan and Musician Frankie Hernandez.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amy Acker & Alexis Denisoff, San Francisco, CA 4/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 09:03
Caption: Taylor Tower at CKUT studios in Montreal, Canada
Edward Packard, the man behind the Choose Your Own Adventure books, talks about how he came up with the concept and what role adventure has played ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Walter Salles, San Francisco, CA 12/8/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
Caption: Matthew Quick, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matthew Quick talks living an examined life, being rejected over 70 times, and what it was like to get the phone call that changed his life.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:26
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The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
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Kristy Guevera-Flanagan talks the terrors of truth, the progressive nature of soap operas, and why it took a woman writer to get Wonder Woman out o...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 21:10
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Ang Lee talks faith, storytelling, and being pushed to the edge.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:18
Caption: Joe Wright, San Francisco, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Joe Wright talks dancing through class distinctions, the seduction of ego, and the magic of the intangible.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:04