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Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. In a different role, Vogel has also distinguished herself a...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 53:56
KCRW presents a special one-hour edition of Serendipity, the podcast of the Sarah Lawrence College International Audio Fiction Awards. This broadca...
Bought by WCQS
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 04:36
-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...
Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. In a different role, Vogel has also distinguished herself a...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 8
Audiences will be treated to King Lear the way it sounded in 1606 at its first performance at the Court of Saint James. Director and IU associate p...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 23:27
Being a roofer was never sold to Philip Armand as a safe profession. When he nearly falls to his death, he is left thinking about his childhood di...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 04:19
Henry Schvey discusses the inspiration for his play on the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka,
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 12:16
Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:23
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
We talk with Rebecca Katz Harwood, Associate Professor in the UMD Department of Theatre about adaptation, transforming a story originally in anothe...
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 16:36
When the hurly burly’s done, fair is foul and foul is fair, by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes, screw your courage to the...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 01:01:00
Professor Joe Loewenstein details Shakespeare's creative and intellectual response to accusations of plagiarism by Robert Greene.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 16:39
Roman historian Karen Acton explores the historical identities of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 14:58
Scholars and directors shed light on the question of why we continue to study and admire William Shakespeare.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 16:50
Zeb's just found a trailer which is lucky because crocobass tend to enjoy their prey while it's still alive.
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 04:09
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, a seasoned adventurer docked his sail...
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 2
-How did Shakespeare's plays sound 400 years ago? Plus: A novelist mentored by John Grisham. And more….
Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 6
An adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", as performed by Rockford, IL's Artists' Ensemble, recorded live at Northern Public Radio's (...
Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, KUNR, and KMUD
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 3
National Novel Writing Month and Native American Heritage month come together again in the work of Linda Rodriguez. She talks about how her mystery...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...
Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
