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The life and career of a man who became known for “breaking the box."
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR-FM, KKRN, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 8
Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner talk improvisation,Charlie Chaplin, and the evolution of screen size.
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 16:13
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:22
A dramatic retelling of the challenging American expedition to climb the world's highest mountain, May 1, 1963.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 21:29
- Purchases: 1
Artistic Director Anita Monga talks the context of German Expressionism, the birth of celebrity culture, and why Buster Keaton will always be cont...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 18:40
On this special edition of "The Live Feed" we air a reading of the original play, "Enemy Alien" written by Scott Dixon of the Commonweal Theatre in...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 01:42:08
- Purchases: 1
An true-life love story about three icons of classical music.
Bought by Nevada Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 9
Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones. At the end of episode one, black attorney Jones was faces with taking on a racially charged mu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2013
- Length: 28:56
Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 16:35
Sacha Gervasi talks legends, reality, and the magic of the number 27.
- Added: Nov 23, 2012
- Length: 16:32
Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 02:27
A dramatization of the life and work of Margaret Sanger, birth control activist, followed by an interview with the author, Ann Beyke and political ...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Mar 25, 2012
- Length: 55:21
- Purchases: 1
Three well-known Southern writers tell stories of tragedy and comedy in their own personal lives, and see Shakespeare in themselves, others, and ev...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Oscar(tm)-winner Michel Hazanavicius talks silence, sound, and using color to get to black & white.
- Added: Dec 04, 2011
- Length: 18:21
Director Simon Curtis on recreating a legend, living up the myth, and the uses of terror.
- Added: Nov 29, 2011
- Length: 13:39
Frontier women struggle to survive in the unsettled American West.
Bought by Nevada Public Radio, KKRN, KMUN, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, KUOW and more
- Added: Oct 10, 2011
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 6
A married Jewish couple are abruptly separated by the KGB when the husband is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike double
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 14:24
This touching dramatised reconstruction, is based on the extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian Jews living in Stalin’s Russia.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 14:53
This touching dramatised reconstruction, is based on the extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian Jews living in Stalin’s Russia.
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 15:21
A married Jewish couple are abruptly separated by the KGB when the husband is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike double
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 14:10
SueMedia Productions, in conjunction with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, (NATF) is offering "William’s Leap for Freedom" for Stations to bro...
Bought by WNIJ, KUNM, WESM 91.3 FM, KUT, WCPN and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2011
- Length: 52:57
- Purchases: 13
West Side Story, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Amadeus, Wicked-- You may not know Chic Silber, but you probably know at least some of the spectacles ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 08:09
In part two of our visit with Patrick Marek on the Ghost of Heffron Hall we learn of haunted happenings at the location itself. We also get to hear...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 24:34
Special Guest Patrick Marek stops by KQAL to discuss the legendary ghost of Heffron Hall at St. Mary's University in Winona MN. This haunt has been...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 21:30
Julie Klassen about her book of historical fiction that's been nominated for a Minnesota Book Award, "The Silent Governess."
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 15:36
