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Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid.
Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 11:46
Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
- Added: Jul 01, 2016
- Length: 29:51
Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. People thought no jail was strong enough to keep hi...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson J...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 29:53
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Bo...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson brings us back to the days when Algiers was a stomping ground for bullfights and other forms of an...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 10:23
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
Pip returns to Miss Havisham's and learns the secrets of Satis House.
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 27:41
TJ English is an award winning journalist and screenwriter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 16:14
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 09:47
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:27
More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two weeks later, all but one of them had been shot dead.
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- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 25:28
- Purchases: 1
In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman’s headless body in a farmer’s field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 19:25
- Purchases: 1
"My understanding had a name now." An 86 year old retired autistic judge chronicles his journey from the Everglade Swamp of the segregated South to...
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 20:50
Chuck Prophet talks with Kyle Meredith about a Cormac Mccarthy inspired future, the White Night Riots of San Francisco, glam rock, and his new albu...
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- Added: Aug 19, 2015
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Xanath Caraza likes to use poetry to showcase some of Mexico's linguistic and cultural diversity, drawing inspiration from Afro-Mexican history, La...
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nine year old Gary Hayman ran away from a Rhode Island mental hospital in 1952 and sparked the biggest manhunt in state history.
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- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
“Yea, those are human brains.”
I’m looking into a wooden display cabinet with Stephanie Stewart Bailey.
“It's kind of like a yellowy color they'r...
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 09:29
KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings.
On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attack...
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- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 50:59
- Purchases: 2
The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
