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When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she received something very strange in the mail. She didn’t know who it was from, or why they would have sent i...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 25:31
  • Purchases: 1
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“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:22
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Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 36:44
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It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 23:08
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When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 1
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When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 22:25
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In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Christian Olsen to do some repairs on her condo. A...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
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On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in Atlanta called Little Five Points. The home be...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 24:56
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Today, we take you back to the month of April, in the year 2012. That’s when we set out on a road trip from Austin, Texas. We’re aiming to find out...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:29
  • Purchases: 2
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We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:50
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
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Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
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There were thousands of organizers, activists and local social justice leaders around the world who died in 2018. As we do every December, we brin...

Bought by KVSC and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For decades, Israeli radio stations ignored Mizrahi tunes and exclusively played music rooted in Ashkenazi traditions. That began to change in the ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 21:07
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The story of a song that began the music careers of two Israelis each representing vastly different versions of what the future of Israel may hold

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 32:43
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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...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 18:35
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Today, we invite artists, curators, a media specialist, and an invigilator to share some of the stories behind challenging new work. They reveal ho...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:39
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
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Some kids dream of going to the moon or playing for the Yankees. Ariel Harpaz had a seemingly more attainable goal in mind: to get his picture up o...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 20:49
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On the next More to Say, we’re picking up on a conversation we started last week about affordable housing in Utah. This time it’s all about tiny ho...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s no secret that rent around Salt Lake City is really high. And if you drive around downtown, you’ll see tons of new apartment complexes under c...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 17:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Exclusive interview with French President Emmanuel Macron who told DW how he had tried, but failed, to keep the US in the Iran nuclear deal. Afte...

  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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It’s hard to keep teachers in Utah's Monument Valley. It's beautiful there, sure, but you're hours away from a real grocery store or a movie theate...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
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When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 12:37
Caption: Bryan Wells, finder of the wreakage, with some of what's left on Emigrant Peak, Credit: Adrian Sanchez Gonzalez/Bozeman Daily Chronicle
When the pilot of a plane saw a fireball explode on Emigrant Peak north of Yellowstone National Park, the dispatcher called out: Fido 15! Fido 15! ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
  • Purchases: 1