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In parallel but separate tales, Michelle and Abe inherited immense wealth at a young age. For many years, they didn't talk about it, or know what t...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
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Starting tomorrow night, audiences will be treated to King Lear the way it sounded in 1606 at its first performance at the Court of Saint James. Di...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
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This Arts Interchange is about Jean Anouilh’s 1944 Antigone, inspired by the Sophocles play of the same name, which the IU Theater Department is pe...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:09:41
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Shadoe Stevens, syndicated radio host, voice over actor, and TV personality, shares a story about the dangers of driving while high.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:01
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Shadoe Stevens, syndicated radio host, voice over actor, and TV personality, tells how his addictions went from pastime to obsession and took contr...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
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“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 22:40
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United 173 crashed six miles short of the runway at Portland, Oregon. It had run out of fuel. Ten people were killed. How could that happen?

  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:42
Caption: In the van, Credit: Nicola Benizzi
Report on the "Beauty in Transition" mobile hair salon.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Sam White and Othello cast, Credit: Cybelle Codish
Sam White loves Detroit and loves Shakespeare. So, she emptied her bank account and started a site-specific professional theater company, Shakespea...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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A triple murder, a habitual liar on a stolen motorcycle, and a confession that doesn’t add up. Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn’t comm...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 31:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Moriamo Akibu  in COLLIDESCOPE  , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
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The freedom of speech is a pillar of our democratic process...it’s supposed to welcome all voices. But what happens those voices sow hate, or threa...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Maxine Klein is an Obie Award-winning director known for her provocative political theater. She received a PhD from Cornell University, and began h...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Bloomington Playwrights Project’s final show of the 2013-2014 season, the original musical “Greta”, opens tomorrow night at 7:30pm. WFHB correspond...

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:42
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Manufacturing methamphetamine is a crime that impacts an entire community. Learn about the realities of meth addiction from the authorities that b...

  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 08:33
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The Naked I: Insides Out is the third in a series of Naked I plays that explores an unprecedented breadth and depth of trans and gender non-conform...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A philosophical survey of the oeuvre of Woody Allen.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
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St. Paul Central High School's Central Touring Theater (CTT) has been creating original social justice theater for more than three decades. At CTT,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 2
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Last May Move to Amend-South Central Indiana co-sponsored a play, “The Prosecution of Judge Waite,” written by local activist Jim Allison about the...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:05
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In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bring It On! proudly presents “True Colors” by Vernon A. Williams. "True Colors" explores dynamics of p...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 51:18
Caption: Peter Nicks, San Francisco, CA 10/9/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Peter Nicks talks access, compassion, and letting the audience think for itself.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 21:01