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A deeply funny story by John Riggi about family holidays.

A deeply funny story by Alan Zweibel about his relationship with the censor at Saturday Night Live, where he was one of the original Emmy-winning writers....

A deeply funny story by Scott King about his gay agenda and network TV.

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.

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.

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.

Mystery trifft History: Ripper‘s Daughters ist eine düster-spannende neue Trilogie des Multi-Bestsellerautors Markus Heitz. Diese fesselnde Serie entführt ihre Hörenden auf eine Reise ins viktorianische London und rund um die Welt. Sie folgt den Spuren von Jack the Ripper und seinen Töchtern, die übersinnliche Fähigkeiten besitzen. Gemeinsam folgen sie den Hinweisen auf eine gefährliche Verschwörung, und bald sind sämtliche ihrer Fertigkeiten gefragt, um zu überleben.

Wer ist Professor Augustus van Dusen? Diese Frage stellt sich niemand mit mehr Nachdruck, als er selbst. Nach einem Unfall im Krankenhaus erwacht, wird ihm gleich nach dem Leben getrachtet, ohne dass er wüsste wieso. Oder auch sonst mehr wüsste, als seinen Namen. Doch als er von seinem Fenster aus einen Mord beobachtet, entdeckt er zumindest sein Talent auf dem Bereich der Kriminalistik wieder. Holysofts „Van Dusen“ ist eine radikale Neuinterpretation Jacques Futrelles klassischer „Denkmaschine“. In der Gegenwart des 21.

¿Estará capacitada para volver al trabajo? Han pasado doce semanas desde que Paula Beyer, inspectora de la Policía de Dresde, viajó hasta la pequeña localidad de Freidorf para investigar las misteriosas desapariciones de varios adolescentes. Ahora está sentada frente al psicólogo encargado de determinar si dice la verdad sobre el caso o si, por el contrario, debe ser apartada del servicio de forma indefinida.

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.