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In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 24:23
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 34:28
In 1930, a Cuban woman named Elena de Hoyos went to the hospital in Key West, Florida. She had a bad cough, and her family was afraid she had Tuber...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 18:24
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 27:01
- Purchases: 1
John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 28:12
“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 2
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 26:51
- Purchases: 1
Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 36:44
When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 1
When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 22:25
We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 25:54
- Purchases: 1
Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:14
Izzy Young ran The Folklore Center in New York's Greenwich Village for decades and produced Bob Dylan's first public concert in 1961. Young died M...
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 04:44
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
An eight-year-long personal investigation into the chain of events that lead to the assassination lead to, of all places, Israel's most popular rap...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 11:46
This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 22:48
- Purchases: 1
On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.
Bought by ABC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 31:31
- Purchases: 2
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
Bought by WWNO
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
In this week's show : we hear from the first 'test tube baby' 40 years later, find hot and bothered Germans (who also sit too much), long live the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 08, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...
- Added: May 09, 2018
- Length: 12:37
Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:02
