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Lost and Found, Lost in Thought
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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New views of getting lost

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:14
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
The Cult of Colin (Firth)
From: kitty felde
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confessions of a Colin Firth groupie

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
The Plows
From: Sean Hurley
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A reflection on the first snow of the winter.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Gist of It
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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Commercial parody for people who are too busy for books on tape - from Live Wire!, a live radio variety show.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
Peace Talks Radio: Spoken Word for Peace (58:00 / 54:00 / or Three 29:00 programs)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Actors, storytellers and poets express their hope for peace with the spoken word.

Bought by WVTF, WXXI Rochester, KNCT FM, KWMR, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 20
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
RN Documentary: A Conversation with James Meek
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A conversation with novelist and journalist James Meek about his latest novel, ?A People?s Act of Love.?

  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
"What's your opinion of memory?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
"What do you want me to tell you?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The interview was just a formality, but the results were highly unexpected.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 1
"I could tell you stories, but I don't think you want to hear them."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Imagine yourself in a bar, the sort of old fashioned place with dark wood and red leather booths and the ghosts of a million cigarettes. You order...

Bought by KUNM and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:17
  • Purchases: 2
"This is how the story was told to me."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
"What I'd like you to do is behave more like a husband."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Two women, with two very different outlooks. They both would like your attention. Frankly, they demand your attention.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
"He did not drop the glass."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Sometimes the most trivial of accidents can devide our lives into before and after.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
"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
"I can see you're concerned about torture."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The world is a dangerous place. Fortunately there are people willing to do anything to protect us. Absolutely anything.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 2
"On the afternoon of July 12, 1960..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Can the memories evoked by a forgotten perfume change a life?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
"The Woodpecker"
From: KCUR
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Muskogee Creek Indian story called "The Woodpecker."

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
Slam: Literary Fad or Movement
From: Don McIver
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In the 80's Marc Smith invented the Poetry Slam, which has swept the country and created a spoken word revolution.

Bought by KRZA, Marfa Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUHB, WEKU and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2005
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 7
Lapsarian Hummingbirds
From: Dale Short
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A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
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
Laughing without an Accent
From: Holly Kernan
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Iranian born Firoozeh Dumas' Audio Diary of a first time author

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFUV, WYSO, and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Sep 06, 2003
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 5