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Mum's Addicted to Tetris!
From: Chris Attaway
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Seventy five yar old Lynn tells the story of her Game Boy addiction

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
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Bucket of Blood and Belle's Barn
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Join us in this episode as we wrap up our first season with two buildings that used to form part of daily life for many in Downtown Talkeetna, but ...

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  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
Miners and Trappers Cabins
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we take a tour of some the humble yet vital cabins that sheltered miners and trappers in the area, many of which still stand today...

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  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Forks Roadhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we head across the river, past Trapper Creek, and toward the Petersville mining district, where we find the Forks Roadhouse miles ...

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
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Curry
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re headed to Curry, a place “up the tracks” from Talkeetna that has been the site of a luxury hotel, a thriving small town, and...

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Nagley’s General Store
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re visiting one of the first buildings you see as you turn onto Talkeetna’s Main Street, Nagley’s General Store. Since it was b...

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Talkeetna Roadhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Since being built by Frank Lee around 1916 and later moved to its current location, the Talkeetna Roadhouse has been a staple of local life. Today...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Schoolhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
For more than eighty years, the territorial schoolhouse building has stood in Downtown Talkeetna, Alaska. It has served many purposes over the dec...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
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The Fairview Inn
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
The Fairview Inn is referred to by some as “Talkeetna’s living room.” On this episode of the Blue Tarp, we hear from people for whom the Fairview ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
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Episode 30: Cheers
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 25:11
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Episode 155: Cannonball
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
Episode 26: The Kinseys
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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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
Episode 153: The Max Headroom Incident
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 23:35
Episode 152: The Clearwater Monster
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:29
Episode 151: The Many Lives of Michael Malloy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
Episode 148: Errol Morris
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 41:57
Episode 147: Kids on the Case
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:54
Episode 145: How to Sell a Haunted House
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:05
Episode 144: Looking Out
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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People incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison aren’t allowed to have pets — but some people, like Ronell Draper, have found ways to ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 31:49
Duncans Mills and Cazadero
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR
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1894 Cazadero train wreck, Gaye Lebaron on Black Bart, the restoration of Duncans Mills, the History of Pole Mountain Lookout, and more!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 57:30
Seeking and Blundering – The Discovery of Penicillin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
The Transcendent Laugh: Comedy & Partisanship, with special guest, Myq Kaplan
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Myq Kaplan
Ok, Comedians, make America laugh with surprising, original jokes that offend absolutely no one and work equally well in our very blue, very red an...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 21:43
  • Purchases: 1
Time Well Spent - Bypass
From: Ronald Young Jr
Series: Time Well Spent - Bypass Series
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In this episode, I reveal a secret that i've kept from my parents for 16 years. What direction will this go?

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
Audio postcard from a hummingbird festival
From: Cole del Charco
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Take a non-narrated trip through the 11th annual Mecklenburg County Hummingbird festival.

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Searching For Our Future Selves
From: Arlie Adlington
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jess and Arlie cycle through the London night to see if they can find their future selves... A piece about imagining queer futures!

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1

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