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Caption: Salman Rushdie and Virginia Prescott backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, Credit: Sara Plourde
Salman Rushdie is a Booker-Award-winning novelist and the prolific author of a number of non-fiction works, children's books, and essays. He joined...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:08
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Conversation about the unique sci-fi, large scale puppet play "Four Garys" written by Jeremiah T.S. Liend

  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 11:56

  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 24:46
Caption: Lester Blackiston
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 26:09
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the band Rockstar Frame, actor Michael Sun Lee, and The Plot Against America, in...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Amy Ryan
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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As a poet, teacher, and heart transplant recipient, Dean Young realizes that mankind's greatest achievements are the intangible ones. Young, the a...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Director and Writer Don Thacker, Author Dr. Frank Romano, and The Finest Hours i...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 3
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Join us for the perfect bedtime story full of kings, queens, princes, princesses, fairies, merfolk, giant eagles, trained cats, magic, and lessons ...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring our New York correspondent Chrissy McIntyre, Author Chip Wagar, and Cuba Straits...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:41
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In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we take a trip back to the 1940s and 50s as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 27:58
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Through a joy from everyday creativity found in various venues and over fifteen years as the editor-in-chief of Brainerd’s Lake Country Journal, Jo...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:38
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the New Zealand band Ivy Blue, Author Martin Lastrapes, and Night Fall by New Yo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:31
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a local author who is known for her playwritting. This time, she has ventured into publishing her first ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us on a two part journey through KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Ever wondered what the *tattoos* covering that woman's arm mean? Author Isaac Fitzgerald reads from his new book, Pen & Ink: Tattoos and The Storie...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
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
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Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Lena Dunham and Judy Blume, Credit: Jenna Weiss-Berman
A conversation between Lena Dunham and Judy Blume, in Blume's Manhattan apartment. Recorded, edited and produced by Jenna Weiss-Berman.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 40:01
  • Purchases: 1
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If you think you want to launch a new poetry slam, first take a walk through the Bay Area. Your cutting edge idea may have already been done. In Sa...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:24