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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 28:57
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
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
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I wa...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 39:19
In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 1
When people know you’re in the storytelling business, everyone has a story for you. Our producers get countless pitches — from their friends, from ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 18:44
In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 47:57
In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 52:51
What would it look like for you to live your life with grace?
This SUPERHUMANS story shows us how to experience loss with Grace. Kristi opens up a...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 36:40
Has there ever been something you thought defined you, but maybe doesn’t have to?
This SUPERHUMANS story demonstrates that living with a disease d...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 18:27
If you staged your own funeral, what would your friends and family say about you?
This SUPERHUMANS story will tickle your soul by exploring what i...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 35:49
If you could meet up with one person in the afterworld, who would it be?
This SUPERHUMANS story takes us into the mind of a NASA astronomer as she...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 34:24
If given a do-over in life, what would you do with it?
This SUPERHUMANS story takes us on a beautifully raw journey that displays the courage and ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 26:36
Superhumans is an immersive audio docu-series that takes you deep into the unspoken intersection of health & humanity. In each episode, real people...
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 04:39
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Mishy Harman and Marie Röder visit an empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, where they shadow the duo behind one of Israel’s most popular news...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 17:56
In August 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented his highly contentious plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four i...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 52:34
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:19
In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 25:11
- Purchases: 1
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
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:23
There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
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
