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FORTUNE'S FOOL: Short Plays About Winning
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: John Lithgow
John Lithgow and Debra Monk star in FORTUNE’S FOOL, two plays about very different competitions -- and what people will do when they want to win ba...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Amor Towles, Author of "A Gentleman in Moscow"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Hear Bob Kustra talk with Amor Towles about his novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Dissenting Adults: Two short plays by David Auburn and Leland Frankel
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Martha Plimption
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cell by Cassandra Medley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Condola Rashad
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...

Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Forward Observer: A short play by Willy Holtzman
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried VA hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giving her a hard time a...

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
Spin Central - Two Short Plays by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: David Auburn
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Who Decides What’s Fair? Author Ausma Zehanet Khan
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An international human rights lawyer, Ausma Zehanet Khan in “The Unquiet Dead” introduces two Canadian police inspectors, Rachel Getty and Esa Khat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author Martin Cruz Smith and “Tatiana”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Irish Author Roddy Doyle and "The Last Republic"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 8: Dina Rae/Halo of the Damned - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 39:48
The Toll Booth
From: Jonathan Katz
Caption: Comedy for Grownups
A comedic examination of a political dilemma faced by this country in the year 2009.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
Kenneth Johnson
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Creator of V talks about his sequel novel, V: The Second Generation.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 46:07
Steven Culp
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Talented actor looks back on his roles in Desperate Housewives and Star Trek Enterprise. We also chat about his movie role in Thirteen Days and Fro...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 31:46
The Last Pope
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The politics and process of electing a Pope.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2005
  • Length: 29:00