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A deeply funny story by Kevin Rooney about his Father, Labor Day, and the politics of labor in America. KEVIN ROONEY was a writer on The Dennis Miller Show and a frequent guest on Politically Incorrect. This piece was recorded at Un-Cabaret's reading series Say the Word, featuring great comedy writers reading their own original first-person non-fiction at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA.

A deeply funny story by Kevin Nealon about his new home. This is a rare chance to hear Kevin writing for himself, and discover that his wit is as bright as his house. This piece was recorded at Un-Cabaret's reading series, Say the Word, featuring great comedy writers reading their own original first-person nonfiction at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Judy Toll calculates that she's gained and lost over 400 pounds. This is her story.

Michael Patrick King attends his first Bikram yoga class, and it doesn't go so well.

Todd Hanson surprises himself with his own accomplishments.

Unique writer Peter Mehlman considers our need for immortality.

Eric Gilliland is so desperate for a job, that he takes a position as entertainment director at a club called The Snuggery. And it gets worse from there.

Jon Kinnally changes his eternal child's psychic diaper.

Brent Forrester celebrates The Guy Who Does a Crazy Thing on Principal (Noah - and himself!) in a pair of stories about confronting a fast-food employee and a rabbi at a street fair.

Another of Stephen's bizarre and hilarious encounters with a psychiatrist. If you're keeping track, the score is currently Stephen: 2, Shrinks: 0.

A comic and heart-warming play about teenager Michael Croxley. Michael's stammer has contributed to his fear of public speaking. But then the girl he adores, Lynne Hargreaves, reads a composition of his in double English, and discovers he's a whizz with words and his spelling is stupendous. When she asks him to be part of the school spelling-bee team, how can he refuse? He accepts gallantly.

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Das bedeutende Werk der Nobelpreisträgerin als Hörspiel. Rumänien 1945: Auf Anweisung Stalins werden alle arbeitsfähigen Männer und Frauen deutscher Herkunft zwischen 17 und 45 Jahren in sowjetische Arbeitslager deportiert. Ihr Schicksal schildert Herta Müller am Beispiel Leopolds. Für die Aufnahmen zu dem atmosphärischen Hörspiel fuhr der vielfach ausgezeichnete Regisseur Kai Grehn an Originalschauplätze in die Ukraine, ließ alte Lager-Lieder neu einspielen und engagierte ein hochkarätiges Ensemble.

Quand Ellen Ripley retourne enfin sur Terre, c'est pour découvrir que LV-426, la planète sur laquelle l'équipage du Nostromo est pour la première fois entré en contact avec les terribles/monstrueux Xenomorphes, a été rebaptisée Acheron. Protégés par un régiment de Marines coloniaux, les colons essaient de terraformer la planète balayée par les tempêtes. Au-delà des conditions de vie extrêmes et des combats journaliers imposés par ce nouveau monde, l'espoir et l'humanité demeurent.

Un-Cabaret assembled the entire Emmy-winning writing staff of Sex and the City, each reading their own work for this special sold-out edition of Say the Word at The Knitting Factory in New York. Meet the writers behind the hit show and hear the individual voices that came together to create a cultural landmark.

Der Science-Fiction-Klassiker als ungekürztes Hörspiel. Von Orson Scott Card selbst bearbeitet und von Oliver Rohrbecks Lauscherlounge-Team im Hörspielstudio Xberg mit einem fast 100köpfigen Figurenensemble produziert. Das Hörspiel besticht durch außergewöhnliche Charaktere, aufwendige Geräuschkulissen und einer beeindruckende Geschichte. In der nahen Zukunft wird die Erde von einer feindlichen Alien-Rasse attackiert...

For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, it’s the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock—with a well-armed militia—the Jensens’ dream becomes a living nightmare. This stranger calls himself Colonel Lamar Talbot. He’s come to warn them about a looming war with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre—by launching a counterattack that’s even bloodier.

A mind-blowing collection of drug stories, illegal-substance-related rants and raves by a psychedelic posse of progressive performers. Proceeds benefit the Drug Policy Alliance, an awesome group of freedom fighters who believe that you shouldn't be punished for what you put in your own body.

Während eines Besuchs bei seiner Bank fällt Professor van Dusen im gläsernen Nachbarbüro eine atraktive blonde Frau auf, die vom Bankdirektor einen Koffer voller Geld ausgehändigt bekommt. Doch nicht nur er wurde unfreiwilliger Zeuge dieses Vorgangs, sondern auch ein Mann namens Norwood, der in einem Nebenzimmer wartet und knietief in Geldnöten steckt. Van Dusen sieht sein ungutes Gefühl bestätigt, als er beobachtet, wie Norwood die Frau von der Straße bis in ihr Hotel verfolgt.