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In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 34:28
In 1930, a Cuban woman named Elena de Hoyos went to the hospital in Key West, Florida. She had a bad cough, and her family was afraid she had Tuber...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 18:24
Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...
Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 26, 2020
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 11
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 15, 2020
- Length: 01:00:03
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 14, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Pulses fall from the way lines like pollen in Springtime. A Citizen disappears from the City, causing a search in a way line pulse. The light see...
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 09:27
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 27:01
- Purchases: 1
John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 28:12
“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 2
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 26:51
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 25:54
- Purchases: 1
Searching for Meaning in Kensington
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 55:22
Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:14
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:01
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:00
This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 01:17:06
Izzy Young ran The Folklore Center in New York's Greenwich Village for decades and produced Bob Dylan's first public concert in 1961. Young died M...
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 04:44
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 01:13:07
