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Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the statio...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:50
Episode 170: Ian Manuel
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:47
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 168: 48 Hours, Part 2
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report tha...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 43:40
Episode 165: Unfit
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
08 "I Just Wanted to Belong" [Raj's Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
When have you felt like an outsider? And when have you felt like you truly belonged? Today’s SUPERHUMAN storyteller, Raj Aggarwal, reveals to us o...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 26:49
06 "Living in Overtime" [David's Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
What would you do if your life took a turn and you were suddenly given more time to be alive? In this SUPERHUMAN story, Dr. David Fajgenbaum faces...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 46:29
August Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear from 4 people around the world talking about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From a mother whose strug...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, RadioStPete Florida, and WMPG


  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Big Pharma vs The People: The Fight to Save America’s Largest Generic Drug Manufacturer
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: July Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear from 6 people across the globe talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother who never...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: June Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear five people talk about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From the expectations their mothers had that th...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 3
A Box of Photographs
From: Paula Nelson
Caption: The negatives reveal the truth beyond the memory., Credit: Paula Nelson
A rich, intimate story of family, childhood memories, and rediscovering old photographs and the stories that connect them.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 1
Mother Mine: May Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece six women talk about their mothers, and who they are because of their mothers. From the the secrets they never told their mothers, an...

Bought by WORT, Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: The Music and Philanthropy of Harry Chapin- Single Hour Version
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Single hour version of a program spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks abo...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
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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
The Old Trapper
From: Will Davis
Caption: Jim Ledbetter, The Old Trapper , Credit: Jim Ledbetter
The Old Trapper is a true story about frontier living, isolation, and benevolence. It is a poetic audio documentary and its style is fragmentary, i...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 27:14
05 “Grace in the Face of Discomfort” [Kristi’s Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
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
04 “Beautiful, Imperfect, and Incomplete” [Godfrey’s Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
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
SUPERHUMANS Trailer
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
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
The Princess
From: Israel Story
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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
Episode 31: Something Large and Wild
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 23:19
Episode 154: The Night of the Party
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with murder, neither of them were worried they would be convicted. They had dozens of witnesse...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 30:34
End of Year Special: Part 2
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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2020 was a year like no other. Throughout the pandemic, Transmission Times captured the fears, hopes, worries, and joys of ordinary people during t...

Bought by WFHB, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWMR, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 6
End of Year Special: Part 1
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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2020 was a year like no other. Throughout the pandemic, Transmission Times captured the fears, hopes, worries, and joys of ordinary people during t...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, RadioStPete Florida, WFHB, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 7
Transmission Times End of Year Special: Pandemic in Review
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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2020 was a year like no other. Throughout the pandemic, Transmission Times captured the fears, hopes, worries, and joys of ordinary people during t...

Bought by KFCF FM, WMMT, WERU, KKRN, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode 150: 76th and Yates
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he w...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 31:41

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