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The Misadentures of Sherlock Holmes, episode six
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Radio Theater
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"The Giant Rat of Sumatra"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 28:45
Irvine Welsh Interview
From: Maeve Conran
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Author Irvine Welsh talks about his latest book "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs".

  • Added: Jul 19, 2007
  • Length: 23:53
The End of Harry Potter?
From: Bill Slammon
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Vox pop with kids and adults about the last Harry Potter book.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Scrotum and the Culture Wars
From: Merle Kessler
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The word "scrotum" is used in a children's book. Controversy ensues.

Bought by KRCC-FM and KUSP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 2
Women Who Can Fly: Trina Robbins and Superheroines
From: Elizabeth Chur
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Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.

Bought by WJAB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
"I look to you for advice."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Finally, some practical information on how to handle life in corporate America! Feel free to take notes. There will be a test on this material.

Bought by KUNM and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2
Edgar Allan Poe's Vericose Vein Clinic's Plus 'Squirrels Gone Wild'
From: Joel Brussell
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Fake Commercials for Edgar Allan Poe's Vericose Vein Clinics Plus Squirrels Gone Wild

  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:09
"I defended you."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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You're at a party. There's a conversation going on behind you. You really shouldn't be listening. Really.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Be A Man
From: Aaron Sanders
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personal essay on manliness

  • Added: Mar 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10
The Cause and the Cure for Hiccups
From: Jack Straw Cultural Center
Series: Jack Straw Poets
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Peter Pereira reads his poems "The Cause and the Cure for Hiccups" as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program.

Bought by PRX Administrator


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves
From: Sedge Thomson
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Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 19
Merry Christmas Mush
From: Chris Goldstein
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Reading of Merry Christmas Mush by Dr. Suess

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRUA, and KQAT


  • Added: Dec 24, 2005
  • Length: :17
  • Purchases: 3
Courting the Librarian
From: Barrett Wolf
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Love poem for the literal and the literary

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
The Wee Free Men
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Strange forces of magic seem to be gathering around Tiffany’s home. Tiffany’s only nine years old, but she’s shown her own powers, and that makes p...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 28:56
GVR 453 What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
From: Paul Nelson
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Interview with Eliot Weinberger

  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 43:30
Natural History of Everything
From: Merle Kessler
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A look at a trend

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:48
Heir Apparent
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Fourteen-year-old Giannine is trapped in a virtual reality game; to escape she must successfully complete the game.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:37
  • Purchases: 1
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
1998 Carl Rakosi - Satyricon
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Rakosi reads incisive political critique

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Will the Real Will Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...

Bought by KFCF FM, WCPN, KQED, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
National Poetry Month Commentary
From: Brian Beatty
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A humorous look at the rhyming, if not cruelest, month.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WKMS, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 3
The Changing (and Ghoulish) Faces of Halloween
From: Jackson Braider
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How Halloween has -- and hasn't -- changed over the years.

Bought by WTJU, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 9
Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"
From: Sedge Thomson
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1

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