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A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2015
  • Length: 30:20
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Kyle Meredith celebrates Langhorne Slim's 35th birthday with a discussion about age, sobriety, and the complexity of influences on his new album "T...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Lt. Robinson points out the warden who died at his desk, Credit: Chris Hambrick
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:27
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I killed my first deer in the backwoods of Wisconsin when I was 13 years old. This was the first time I really understood the existential price of ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:58
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In the 1970s, Pastor David Ned learned an important lesson about himself after what could have been a tragic situation.

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
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The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
Two tales of terror from the Icebox Radio Theater. It's an hour filled to the brim with the true 'spirit' of Halloween.

Bought by 'The Sea', KMUN, WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 5
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Carlos Rocha, an inmate at Danville Correctional Center in Illinois, talks about a murder he committed in 1998.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, KERA, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 4
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
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Army Captain Drew Pham, 26, tells his wife, Molly Pearl, about Afghanistan and some of his most difficult combat memories.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Two environmental activists were arrested in Oklahoma City last year on charges of simulating a terrorist attack. Originally produced for Radio Dis...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:57
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Instead of fighting the chill, why don’t we revel in it? Carl Byron hosts a musical journey that begins in the far and ancient north, with hauntin...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
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Strangers on a train, partners in crime - the two great art forms of the twentieth century meet. As film composers incorporated new sounds into th...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: Dan Lawton
Dan Lawton talks of his first assignment as a crime reporter in the 7th Ward of New Orleans.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:27
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Two teenage sisters, whose names are withheld to respect their privacy, remember confiding in each other about being sexually abused by their uncle...

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
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Elizabeth Olson and her colleagues at the Veterans Crisis Line, the only national suicide prevention hotline for service members, talk about helpin...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
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Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
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Judy and Randy Pilgrim remember their son and Iraq war veteran, Army Specialist Lance Pilgrim.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
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While one guy tries make his mark as a man, another tries to erase the mark that represents a life of mistakes and regret, most of it spent in prison.

Bought by KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
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Poet Danny Klecko provides a vivid glimpse into the world of baking with a look at the camaraderie amongst bakers preparing a new batch of pastries...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
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I GRAB MY PREY WITH STEELY GRIP...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1