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With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 32:22
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 18:17
This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 30:09
- Purchases: 1
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2015
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 3
Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 3
Mainers see cougars all the time. Here's the problem: There are no cougars in Maine.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 3
His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Added: Jul 16, 2007
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Pro wrestler Nikolai Volkoff used to infuriate Cold War crowds with his singing of the Soviet National Anthem --- now he's a 55-year-old grandfathe...
- Added: Mar 29, 2006
- Length: 15:28
- Purchases: 2
Its got to be one of the most recognizable pieces of music we know, spanning classical and pop cultures, yet not many people would recognize the Ca...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2005
- Length: 29:33
- Purchases: 1
The story so far of the computer artscene.
- Added: Jun 14, 2004
- Length: 49:21
