This is Love

Series produced by Criminal

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

From the makers of the award-winning podcast Criminal, This is Love investigates life’s most persistent mystery. Stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on each other.

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


38 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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At 43, Anna Bonavita had given up on finding love. But sometimes it’s worth the wait.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 25:51
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We visit a place where the “black sheep” of the Guggenheim family went to be free.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 22:27
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We visit an ancient place where cats have taken over.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 22:39
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We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 22:26
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We visit a place where it’s good to be ugly.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 27:18
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More than 40 years ago, a man moved to an abandoned mining town to be alone. He says that there are days in the winter “when it’s so quiet that the...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 25:25
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In 1983, Susan Rogers moved thousands of miles from home to work with her favorite artist in the world: Prince. “He was unlike any human I’d ever k...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 26:49
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The story of a color marked by effort and desire.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 21:30
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A story about moving at your own pace.

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 19:41
  • Purchases: 1
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A woman finds a mysterious message in a bottle, and becomes consumed with finding out who wrote it and why.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 23:34
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An experiment in living together, forever.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 23:04
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"People wanted to put him up for sainthood because he married me, like he'd made the ultimate sacrifice."

Bought by PRX Remix and KALW


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 19:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Nino and Drew kept their relationship a secret for more than 40 years. And then, they decided to do something that forced them into the spotlight.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, PRX Remix, and HowSound


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 22:50
  • Purchases: 3
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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