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Today we hear stories by two giants of Mexican literature, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. The former is read by actor Tony Plana; the latter by th...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 52:59
- Purchases: 1
Today, we dive into the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe. The show includes writers Daniel Handler (aka, Lemony Snicket) and Laura Lippman, as wel...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 27:34
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:59
A New Amsterdam doctor has bought some property way out of town (roughly 23rd St.) and the locals claim it's haunted. Dolph, an adventurous young m...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:58
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Aug 14, 2011
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 1
Before it was Ellis Island it was Gibbet Island as that was the location of the gallows used for pirates and mutineers. This is a tale of the dead ...
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 05:05
Real vampires are nothing like the ones we see depicted in Twilight or True Blood. Most of them are just trying to get by. (NOTE: This is a radio d...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 1
Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 29:38
Cleaning Graves in Calvert recounts the ritual of death in small town Texas. Listen as a group of men read Quraysh Ali Lansana's poem and share the...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 02:56
A tale of the imps, goblins, and other demons said to reside on Thunder Mountain and raise squalls on the waters below.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 02:40
A tale of ghost ships sailing up the Hudson or seen just before a storm.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 03:06
Nuclear waste will be with us for thousands of years. But the signs we use to warn people about its location will likely have to change.
Bought by Public Radio Remix and WAMC
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 2
Photographer David Maisel's project "Library of Dust" proves there is life after death, in vivid color.
Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUOW
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
This kickoff show is steeped in Southern heat as the writers take us back to childhood summers. Sarah Mattingly takes a vacation to meet family, Sa...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Father John Fergueson talks about becoming a priest and accepting who he was as a soldier in order to manage his post–traumatic stress disorder.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 11:52
It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 03:53
A probing psychological drama from Arthur Miller.
Bought by KMUN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ and more
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 01:57:54
- Purchases: 7
comparing a kitchen disposal to a toothed vagina, with implications and solution.
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 2
Going into a Combat Zone is tough for anyone. But what's it like when you're 18?
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 04:50
Although I really wanted a baby, once I was pregnant I felt indifferent. I worried I'd be one of those mothers who ends up on the evening news.
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 1
Drama series following Sam, a 26-year-old trapped in a call centre. Literally.
This is the beginning of season two; a good way in for newbies.
- Added: May 24, 2011
- Length: 08:47
According to the Department of Veteran Affairs, about a quarter of women seen at VA hospitals have experienced military sexual trauma (MST). MST is...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 18:23
- Purchases: 1
Cannon Point is a one-block stretch in Broward County, Florida, with the highest concentration of mental health assisted-living facilities in the s...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUT, KUOW, and WAMC
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 07:51
- Purchases: 5
Encounter strange characters with Ann Bittick, Mary Beck, and Sheila Keever. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 28:58
