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Earplay

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Earplay was a public-radio drama anthology from the 1970s and early 1980s, emphasizing original and adapted stereo drama with ambitious sound design.

Earplay was the longest-running of the formal series of radio drama anthologies on National Public Radio, produced by WHA in Madison, Wisconsin and heard from 1972 into the 1990s. It approached radio drama as an art form with scripts written by such leading playwrights as Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Archibald MacLeish and David Mamet.

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