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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning takes a look at some haunted houses and separates the historical facts from the ghost stories.
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
After two kids and more than ten years of marriage, Jenni and Sarah were lying in bed one night when Sarah shared she was a woman born in a man’s b...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 28:47
In episode two, Jack and Susan share how they went from a reluctant first encounter to 30 years of marriage.
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 16:18
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 27:48
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:33
When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:02
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
One day Adam Braseel got a phone call from his mother. She said that a man in Grundy County, Tennessee had been murdered, and the police thought Ad...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 37:14
Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When she did, she felt relieved to finally take them ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 30:57
In 1995, two men filmed an episode of daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 37:18
After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’s not their job. The coroner takes the body, the po...
- Added: Jan 24, 2020
- Length: 19:11
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
This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 22:48
- Purchases: 1
Three of America’s most experienced trauma surgeons speak with us about what happens when someone is shot.
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 20:36
In the second part of the two part series on Fly Fishing, Tom continues his conversations at the Fly Fishing Show. He talks to expert fly tier Rob...
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 01:03:02
David Dovala has lived in Casper, Wyoming since he was 19. He’s worked all kinds of cases, first as a detective and later as sheriff, but a 1973 mu...
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 19:42
In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about wha...
Bought by American Voices and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 29:16
- Purchases: 2
In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:03
- Purchases: 1
In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:15
- Purchases: 1
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
In episode 13 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, it’s Melanie’s turn to take you to Small Syria. To sit by the pool with a group of Syrian w...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 05:41
