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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
In downtown Minneapolis, there's a gay bar with several dance floors conveniently named the Gay 90's.
The Gay 90’s hasn’t always been gay. The bar...
- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 28:06
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 summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:54
In this episode, I reveal a secret that i've kept from my parents for 16 years. What direction will this go?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 24:50
- Purchases: 1
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
The legendary Mellotron story from the team who carry on the work that started in the 60s with Streetly Electronics in the UK.
- Added: Oct 24, 2019
- Length: 34:17
There is nothing Richard “Racehorse” Haynes wouldn’t do to win a case. He once held a cattle prod against his skin. He cross examined an empty chai...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 27:54
- Purchases: 1
Mark Roberts has attended almost every major sporting event in the world. And he’s been escorted off the field almost every time.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:20
A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 41:20
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
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
The wild peacocks of Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California have inhabited the area for over 100 years and now number more than 1,000. For a...
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 01:00
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
For the next hour we’ve got three Christmas stories. From A Christmas Carol on Wheels, which is performed in 20 minutes, to an event called No Roo...
Bought by WLRN
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 54:55
- Purchases: 1
Bill and Becca have been together for 10 years. And, between the 2 of them, they’ve since had over 30 other partners. It’s no secret. They’re polya...
- Added: Jun 15, 2014
- Length: 07:40
In this last episode of Rachel’s series called “Outlooks", she asks kids ages 5-18 a simple, yet thought-provoking question. For students, parents,...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 03:49
Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti shares some stories of home aquariums gone wrong.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 1
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 06:03
- 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
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" B...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 3
