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Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW

Episode 102: Ride-Along

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas.

The Big Pond #06: Suds and Stories

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Germany’s beer influence has spread around the world, and one of the epicenters of this trend is New York City. There are now more than two dozen b...

Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds

From: Roger McDonough

Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons

On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA

Outside of Jazz Fest

From: Sarah Holtz
Series: New Orleans Street Economy

Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...

Music for Animals

From: Britt Wray

Caption: Black Prairie plays a concert for 52 wolves at Wolf Haven sanctuary in Washington State., Credit: Carli Davidson

There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more

Pumpkin Chuckin'

From: JP Davidson

Pumpkins are baked into pies, turned into soup, and carved into jack-o-lanterns. But there's another use for these autumnal gourds - they're the ke...

The Cart Men of Catalina

From: Alexander Ward

Caption: A golf cart for towing golf carts, Credit: Alex Ward

Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio

Tattoo Artist

From: Whitney Jones

Angel Quinonez first became interested in tattoos growing up next to a motorcycle club. He got his first tattoo when he was 17 and starting tattooi...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix

The Sounds of Whiskey

From: Hal B Klein

Caption: Whiskey in the barrel, Credit: Hal B. Klein

Most people know what whiskey tastes like...but what does it sound like? Booze columnist Hal B. Klein takes us inside Wigle Whiskey, an organic dis...

Laughter Yoga

From: JP Davidson

Clare and Alan Goodwin founded Cape Cod Laughter Yoga in 2008. Every week since, they've led a group of a dozen or more people of all ages through ...

Frank T. Hopkins (Hidalgo), November 11, 1951

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

Postcard from The National Cornbread Festival

From: Big Shed Audio

Caption: Shea Shackelford enjoying a barbecue sundae at the 2005 National Cornbread Festival, Credit: Jennifer Deer

"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KTXK, Raven Radio, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast and more

Lost on Lost

From: Justin McLachlan

Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost superfans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.