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A public domain reading of Sappho's "Epigrams" set to public domain jazz from Pixabay.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 03:45
Brain surgeon and unlikely war hero Ryan Brenan has everything: a booming practice, a beautiful home in an idyllic setting, and a happy, loving fam...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 12:55
An Enemy Like Me, written by award-winning author Teri M Brown, is a novel about love, war, and the complexities of family and identity.
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 10:11
“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story version of her famous play, “Trifles”. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, “Alison’s House”.
- Added: May 08, 2023
- Length: 56:33
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 57:01
Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When you have nothing, where do you turn for warmth and comfort? Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" strikes a match and in the brief...
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 09:24
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
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Science fiction drama.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 16:51
Features selections from recent issues of Quiddity, including “Sympathy for the Wendigo” by Tim Kahl, two poems from Kate Asche, as well as “A Leg ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 17:24
The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...
- Added: Jul 18, 2012
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 29:03
In this edition of My Audio Universe we feature four short stories selected from the spectrum of online literary publications and adapted to audio ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 26:52
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
Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
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
Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida (EXPLICIT language version) --- for edited language version and promos go to --- h...
Bought by WVPE
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Like "An Affair to Remember" but with a Christmas theme.
- Added: Dec 08, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 12
- Added: Dec 07, 2005
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 1
Twelve-year old Summer’s only support is her Great Uncle Ob and he’s lost his will to live. But don’t give up hope – help’s on the way.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Oct 19, 2005
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 1
Willy's plan is to win the National Dogsled Race and use the cash prize to save the family farm - but first he'll have to beat Stone Fox, who's nev...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 04, 2005
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 1
Camel's Hump Radio presents two stories from the Vermont Folklife Center Children's Book Series, based on the family history of the Turner family f...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 03, 2005
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
Abandoned, Angel struggles to care for her brother and finds her only peace with a mysterious man who shares with her the wonder of the stars.
- Added: Jan 12, 2004
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 3
