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Caption: Wes Weddell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Wes Weddell discusses writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase, The Bushwic...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Lorraine Lopez
Fiction writer Lorraine Lopez was a 2010 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, with her collection HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. She...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Acclaimed Author and original Head Writer for The David Letterman Show, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
MERRILL MARKOE - Original Head Writer for Late Night with David Letterman. Author of "Cool, Calm & Contentious." CARL ADAMSHICK - Poet and winner ...

Bought by KUT, Rhythm & News Service, KUOW, and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Acclaimed Author and original Head Writer for The David Letterman Show, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
MERRILL MARKOE - Original Head Writer for Late Night with David Letterman. Author of "Cool, Calm & Contentious." CARL ADAMSHICK - Poet and winner...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 30, 2011
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert Bly
Esteemed poet and translator, Robert Bly, is joined by sitarist David Whetstone in this public reading for the Midwest Poets Series. Bly reads a ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Author Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DANIEL HANDLER - Author of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortuante Events. SHELLEY MCLENDON - Writer, producer, actor, and improvisor. DUOVER -...

Bought by WBEZ, Rhythm & News Service, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Author Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DANIEL HANDLER - Author of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortuante Events. SHELLEY MCLENDON - Writer, producer, actor, and improvisor. DUOVER -...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Storytelling, like radio, brings pictures to the mind of the listener and allows each one of us to imagine what we hear. Radio Curious visits with ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Kenny voice of SpongeBob, Credit: jennie Baker for Live Wire!
TOM KENNY - voice of Spongebob SquarePants JOHN de GRAFF - author, speaker & national coordinator of Take Back Your Time TELEKINESIS - an Indie R...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Indie Rock Band Viva Voce, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHRIS GILLEBEAU -World traveler & author of The Art of Non-Comformity. ROLLIN SOLES - Award-winning chief winemaker for Argyle Wines. VIVA VOCE ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNJR, Rhythm & News Service, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
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The new novel by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler poses the question of how a person would live their life if they had a window to their future selves.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
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
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A "non-saccharin", "non pie-in-the-sky" exploration of the power of Hope.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio and WLRN


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Galen Green
Songwriter Galen Green discusses his songs inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, written and performed for The Bushwick Book Club Seattle's mont...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
Caption: Silas Weir Mitchell from GRIMM, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL and BITSIE TULLOCH from NBC's new series filming in Portland, GRIMM. DAVID GUTERSON, acclaimed author of SNOW FALLING ON CEDAR...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 55:03
Caption: Silas Weir Mitchell from GRIMM, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL and BITSIE TULLOCH from NBC's new series filming in Portland, GRIMM. DAVID GUTERSON, acclaimed author of SNOW FALLING ON CEDAR...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WNJR, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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
Caption: Tai Shan, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Tai Shan discusses her song inspired by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Bridget Quigg, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Bridget Quigg talks about her approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Comedian/Author Karen Bergreen tells us about Moms killing Moms and has words for Nancy Grace.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KUOW, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bucket of Honey, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriters Annie Jantzer and Nate Bogopolsky of Bucket of Honey discuss their approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Andrew Nunez, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriter Andrew Nunez talks about his musical approach to Slaughterhouse Five.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Welcome to the Jazz Age. This lyrical portrait of The Great Gatsby features readings by actor Sam Waterston and commentary by Robert Redford, among...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 7