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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
It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 27:37
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
Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 2
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
Life of the Law begins our 4-part series on Uganda. Reported by Gladys Oroma from Gulu, Uganda where she reports for local, national and internatio...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
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
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
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
Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 2
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
Steve Moore learned about the nature of comedy at an early age. He refined his talents out in LA and just as his career was taking off he was diagn...
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 26:15
Gender issues are one of childhood's mysteries. We look back and go hmm...
Bought by WGDR and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Sep 11, 2008
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 2
500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more
- Added: Jun 12, 2008
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 6
The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it's extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared.
Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 4
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 gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 11, 2007
- Length: 49:36
- Purchases: 1
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Added: Feb 23, 2007
- Length: 15:25
From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.
Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2005
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 11
