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Kurt Steiner holds the world record for stone skipping. He throws rocks because it makes him happy. And because he says it’s key to escaping digita...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 12:49
It takes a special breed to head to a Great Lakes beach during the windiest months of the year. But storm photographers are up for the challenge.
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:18
Lake Superior can change in a heartbeat; one minute it’s calm ― the next it's raging into a wild storm. When people in the water get caught off-gua...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:46
The North Country Trail runs through the heart of the Great Lakes region and covers 4,800 miles. Less than 20 people have ever hiked the entire NCT...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 15:38
Lane Frame was visiting the Great Lakes for the first time. It was a windy day and the water was rough, but Lane and his brothers headed onto a pie...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:25
When U.P. snowboarder Nick Baumgartner lost in a qualifying round at the 2022 Olympics, he broke down on national TV. It was his fourth Olympics, h...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 19:13
When hunter Ben Karasch sees something move out of the corner of his eye, he assumes it’s a deer. But as Karasch gets a better look, he realizes it...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 12:54
Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 36
Episode 13: Gone With The Wind
It is three weeks since Ernie dropped Jerry off back at their home in Washington DC. Jerry has been in the care of...
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode 11: A Bed of Coals
Ernie pays a visit to the home office for a meeting with his editor, Lee Miller. Miller, an old friend, knows about Je...
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode 9: A Desolate Corporation
Ernie’s first writing job was as an aviation columnist in The Washington Daily News. Amelia Earhart once said, ...
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode 7: Not The Washington Post March
Finally back on the road, Ernie and Jerry stop into a favorite haunt for the night. However, it is in Oh...
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode 5: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father
Ernie discovers that his father drove his car through the front plate-glass window of the Dana dry-g...
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode 3: The Snake Story
Ernie’s parents are enjoying Ernie and Jerry’s visit home, but his mother just can’t seem to accept what her son has b...
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode 1: The Bourgeois Standard
As pressure mounts from the home office, Ernie is forced to use a voice recorder for his work in interviewing t...
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 2
Remember campfires? We sure do. Standing around a campfire telling stories and socializing used to be a big part of the Desert Oracle "workflow," a...
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
A hundred years before Frank Kapra ever dreamed up a wonderful life, Charles Dickens had already penned the seminal Christmas classic. For the past...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 27:05
In this personal exploration with radio-drama elements, a group of students tries to understand how such an enormous city, with such a large popula...
- Added: May 21, 2017
- Length: 17:13
“A Time for Heroes”
As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 31:54
- Purchases: 1
“Down the Rabbit Hole”
This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 30:40
If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 21:26
For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 04:36
Science doesn't understand lightning very well—or how a strike affects the human body. Survivors sometimes claim to have super-senses, or special p...
Bought by KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KPIK-LP, Marfa Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 41:33
- Purchases: 9
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
