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Sublime Thanksgiving Jazz
From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly
Caption: SUBLIME THANKSGIVING JAZZ
Thanksgiving Jazz | Thanksgiving in Oldtown Combining the most thematic of jazz standards and new additions with a few excerpts from Harriet Beeche...

Bought by WJSU and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 2
An Old Ghost Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ruskin Bond's book "When the Night Falls"
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stories to Tell in the Dark (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Haunted Forest
For Halloween! Stories of ghostly women who wield supernatural powers and lure men to their deaths. And: We're in a new age of horror films like...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KRZA, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
The Gift of the Magi
From: KUER
Series: Radio Hour
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RadioWest and Plan-B Theatre Company bring you O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi." Originally published in 1905 and adapted ...

Bought by WUTC


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
A Christmas Carol
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge and company -- and several spirits -- tell a tale of redemption...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:09
Hungry for the Holidays, with Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
Julia Child takes us back in time, presenting 2 stories -- "A Christmas Carol," read by the actor Peter Donat; and "I Was Really Very Hungry," writ...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KWIT, Boise State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 54:49
  • Purchases: 41
HUNGRY: Julia Child Presents "A Dickens Holiday Feast"
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
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Julia says, "'A Christmas Carol' is a lovely story to read during the holidays, because it has a happy ending." The actor Peter Donat takes us to V...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KMUD, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 25:44
  • Purchases: 19
THE BLUE CARBUNCLE (A Christmas Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)
From: Craig Wichman
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During Yuletide, Holmes and Watson face several Dickensian Londoners, a dusty hat, a famous gem - and a goose! (One of Arthur Conan Doyle’s rare co...

Bought by KGOU, KRPS, KTXK, KRPS, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 28, 2008
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 16
The Horror of it All
From: With Good Reason
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Why do we get so much pleasure from movies that frighten us out of their wits?

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WXXI Rochester, KXOT Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 5
FRANKENSTEIN - Modern Prometheus
From: Craig Wichman
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If you've only seen the movies, you do NOT know this tale of love, death, and obsession...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WRGY, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 10