Criminal

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Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the “if it bleeds, it leads,” kind of crime but something a little more complex. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. The show’s producers are full-time radio people, but Criminal is what we do when we go home at night. 

To contact the show's creators, email thisiscriminal@gmail.com.

Series

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166 Pieces

Criminal is an award-winning podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.

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38 Pieces

Stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we make it up as we go along.


Pieces

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A story about finding your way home.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
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A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:49
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An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 23:07
  • Purchases: 3
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In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about wha...

Bought by American Voices and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 2
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From the makers of the award-winning podcast Criminal, an investigation into life’s most persistent mystery: love.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:35
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As a child, Lawrence Lessig was a gifted singer. His church choir director encouraged him to attend a choir camp at a prestigious boarding school i...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 39:03
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Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and stolen a car. A psychiatrist at Bellevue called hi...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 3
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In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
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In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:15
  • Purchases: 1
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There is a group in Durham, NC called “Parents of Murdered Children.” This week, we meet three of its members.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:09