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A Feathered Immigrant Story (radio cut)
From: Andrew Parsons
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Join us for an urban safari in South Brooklyn to see some displaced Argentine wild animals. Here we discover wild South American birds who represen...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:04
Death Bear and the Power of Purging
From: Andrew Parsons
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Is a photo or piece of clothing from an ex haunting you? Need to purge? This is why the world has Death Bear

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #23: Airlines
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 171: Sealand
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 49:00
The Sparks Brothers
From: Joyride Media
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Russell and Ron Mael are Sparks. The two brothers have spent over 5 decades ahead of the pop music curve, influencing a lot of bands you know.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KOSU, KPSQ-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 153: The Max Headroom Incident
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
The Big Pond #17: The Detroit-Berlin-Connection
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Dimitri Hegemann, the mastermind behind the Berlin nightclub Tresor, has been nurturing an artistic connection between Berlin and Detroit since the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 24:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #15: American Sports in Germany
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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“German baseball” may sound like an oxymoron, but the Bonn Capitals have successfully maintained a leading position in the German baseball league f...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 18:52
Episode 77: The Escape
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Comedy of Ryan Khal and Earl Elliot
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we visit with Ryan Khal and Earl Elliot, two comedians from the Twin Cities. They share with us how they create a...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
St. Croix Radio Callaloo
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Travelogue Media Podcasts
Caption: St. Kitts Masqueraders at Agrifest 2017, St. Croix, Credit: J. Klarl
An audio mash-up from Agrifest 2017 featuring Kamani Tait (KT the Arch Degree), Duane Howell, St. Kitts Masqueraders, “Auntie Janice” Tutein, Carl ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 61: Vanish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death just to see w...

Bought by ABC and KUER


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 24:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jose Serebrier
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Jose Serebrier and John Clare, Credit: Casey Houtz
Jose Serebrier is an internationally respected conductor and composer. We'll speak to him about his artistry and some new recordings.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Splatter Platters Make Things Matter. Episode #528
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
Episode 11: Dragonman - Behind the Guns
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
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
The Apocalypse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
The PDX Carpet Love Story
From: Rendered
Series: Rendered
Caption: A genuine PDX carpet foot selfie, Credit: Julie Sabatier
The first official episode of Rendered (formerly Destination DIY) documents the unprecedented love Portlanders have for their airport carpet.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Return of Doctor Thunder
From: Kellie Hamilton
Caption: Which cat is this?, Credit: Kellie Hamilton
How a cat travels from Texas to North Carolina to the Great Beyond. And then maybe back to North Carolina.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2014
  • Length: 13:06
Lumberjill 101
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
Gloria's Secret Cafe
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY producer Alex Johnson has the story of a one-woman restaurant where customers can't help but feel like a part of the family.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Diane... A Twin Peaks Audio Documentary
From: Mark Packham
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Diane... is an audio documentary that explores the world of Twin Peaks-fandom.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:58
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Well Yes We Have No Bananas Today!" -- Food Shopping in Old New York
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
A Toy Story
From: Robbie Feinberg
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Susan Wasson was trapped in 9 to 5 jobs for decades. But after retiring, she transformed herself through a new career: making dolls out of trash.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 7
The Sounds of Whiskey
From: Hal B Klein
Caption: Whiskey in the barrel, Credit: Hal B. Klein
Most people know what whiskey tastes like...but what does it sound like? Booze columnist Hal B. Klein takes us inside Wigle Whiskey, an organic dis...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:22