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This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 26:58
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
We continue with the stories of five brave women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary Carpenter and Didi Tremblay—who like so many ot...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 27:31
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
This show is about past life memories and whether science and philosophy can ever accommodate them.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 43:48
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 03:22
Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 26:55
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "How To Build A Zombie Apocalypse." The zombie scourge goes ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 03:23
Meet the American pastor being sued for persecuting gay Ugandans.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 16:57
- Purchases: 1
Questions surface about brain harvesting in Maine.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 3
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
A veteran of 25 years witnesses a fellow soldier kill an eight year-old girl. Upon returning home, he develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and f...
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 05:31
Is Maine immune to a deadly bat disease?
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 2
The Guerrette family copes with unthinkable horror.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WMPG
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 11:23
- Purchases: 2
The story behind a documentary made in Tibet that landed the filmmakers in prison.
- Added: Sep 22, 2008
- Length: 09:06
In the summer of 2006, Linda Boutaugh and Keri Fuchs were victims of a violent hate crime. Their home was destroyed, but their relationship survived.
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 2
A reporter's personal and ethical journey through Kolkata's red light districts.
- Added: Aug 12, 2006
- Length: 08:44
Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia
- Added: Jan 10, 2006
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 9
A look at domestic abuse in Hmong culture
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jan 01, 2006
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 1