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Remembering Harvey Pekar: American Splendor
On December 6, 1991, KCRW broadcast an original radio production of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. To honor Pekar's memory, KCRW will reprise the radio production on …
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Selected Shorts: Tales that Surprise
The heroine of Amy Hempel's road trip tale, "Jesus is Waiting," seems to be driving away from something, driving towards something, or just plain driving, on America's …
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Selected Shorts: French Fiction
Guy de Maupassant's "A Parisian Affair,"
which depicts the adventures of a bored provincial housewife seeking
the Paris of her fantasies, is read by actor Rene …
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Selected Shorts: Please Don't Explain
Four stories in which elaborate explanations make things worse: In Dorothy Parker's "Just a Little One," read by Broadway actress, Dana Ivey, a friendly drink turns into a …
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Selected Shorts: Pressing Engagements
The two stories that embrace the past and imagine the future. Lisa Halliday’s “Stump Louie,” imagines a musical prodigy who takes a local radio station to new …
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Too Smart for the Room: The Lord Buckley Story
Lord Buckley was a hipster comedian in the 1950's who influenced many of America's comedic giants. His "hip semantic" renditions of literary classics delighted audiences, …
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Selected Shorts: Jhumpa Lahiri's Two Worlds
Jhumpa Lahiri reads this stunning story of expatriate Indians attempting to find their place in American culture, often with great emotional cost, from her second story …
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Under Milkwood
Richard Burton heads up the cast in this "play for voices" by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. And the voice of the poet himself: A Visit to Grandpa’s — Dylan Thomas brings …
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A Christmas Memory; A Child's Christmas in Wales
Noon to 12:40: A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote’s poignant holiday tale, directed by Michael Peretzian in this KCRW/Mark Taper Forum production, starring Jay Louden and …
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Selected Shorts: Food Fictions
Recorded live at a Selected Shorts tour to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in May of 2006, a funny, sensual, delectable collection of stories to please every food lover. …
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Selected Shorts: Food Fictions
Recorded live at a Selected Shorts tour to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in May of 2006, a funny, sensual, delectable collection of stories to please every food lover. …
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Goodnight Children, Everywhere
In September, 1939, as war with Germany was about to be declared, the children of major British cities were "evacuated." Their parents had no idea where they were going or …
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Planet Money: The Economy, Explained
Legacy Player:
KCRW and National Public Radio present This American Life's Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson in a one-hour live stage show, explaining the global economic crisis in …
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We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
This free public event broadcast live from the Lincoln Memorial includes readings as well as music performances by artists like Bruce Springsteen, Herbie Hancock, Stevie …
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Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites
Stories from the NPR archives that touch on the meaning of Christmas. David Sedaris, Bailey White, John Henry Faulk -- these and other NPR voices, past and present, tell …
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