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An inmate struggles to find freedom through Magick while on Death Row.
- Added: Oct 02, 2022
- Length: 28:54
This week on the show: Ordinary people, extraordinary times: DW’s Nick Conolly shares snapshots from Ukraine. Risk assessment: NATO weighs up its ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 58:59
On this week's programme: The secretive prisons that keep migrants out of Europe. Omnicron takes hold: will Christmas be cancelled in the UK? Turke...
- Added: Dec 16, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Snehal Desai talks about producing new Asian-American, socially-conscious theater at East West Players
Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
Jacob Wheeler talks about his book Between Light and Shadow and some of the nuances of Guatemalan adoptions. (English, 14 min.)
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 14:20
Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 18:21
This week on the show: Devastation and trauma in the wake of catastrophic floods in Germany. Chancellor Merkel promises more commitment to enviro...
- Added: Jul 24, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: Legacy of slavery -
We take a closer look at Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, the darkest chapter in t...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 30:00
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
Radiant Vermin is magical realism allegory that tackles the concepts and misconceptions of homelessness in a way that only theater is able. In tod...
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 29:58
Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: Coronavirus: more than 250 million people in lockdown across the EU. The Italians adjust to life under siege. Criticism ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Ed Zwick talks catharsis, contingent lives, and the new permanent record.
- Added: May 18, 2019
- Length: 16:35
This week on the show: The war in Yemen has pushed millions to the brink of famine. There's a cholera epidemic looming. Despite a fragile truce in ...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 29:59
This week on the show: Macron's concessions to France's 'yellow vest' protesters. Britain's Brexit chaos! Hungary's new controversial 'slave labor'...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 59:00
Hear Bob Kustra talk with Amor Towles about his novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 26:59
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
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
From: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 04:38
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
Jay Roach talks fear-based manipulation, Trumbo’s complex personality, and Louis C.K.’s rumpled collar,
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 15:35
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
Gary Phillips is a writer, teacher, and activist who lives in Los Angeles.
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 26:52
Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari talk moral standing, Dr. Strangelove, and the extended meaning of the word Aryan.
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 12:46