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St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, what o...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 33:50
This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 36:40
The pitfalls of teenagers and tiaras. This week, Mortified explores the obsession kids have with becoming a princess. The Mortified Podcast is a p...
- Added: Aug 12, 2018
- Length: 27:45
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 09:59
The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during WWII. The first step was the formation of a “Sh...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:15
I try to avoid dropping things.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2018
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
Physical record stores have made a comeback in recent years, but there's one in Boston that never went away. At Skippy White's CDs & Records, owner...
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 21:17
In 1993, a man in Steamboat Springs, Colorado was found dead in his home. He’d been burned with a stun gun, hit with a shovel, and shot several tim...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 2
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
In this audio piece, among other things, we learn how she joined The New Yorker’s staff and how her illustrations are infused with a particular kin...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 06:26
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
“If you’re listening to this while driving a car, obviously, leave your eyes open.” In this special appendix to our recent episode on psychoacousti...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 08:35
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 01:43
- Purchases: 3
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
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...
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 24:30
- Purchases: 2
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
Enjoy this favorite kids-friendly holiday with Michael Jackson! Scooby Doo, and the Doobie Brothers...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 03:35:11
Instant messages meant for a stranger began appearing on my dad’s cell phone early one morning in 2004. They trickled in for years, even after thei...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 1
Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 11:50
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Philip Armand misses an opportunity to share cake with Sir Terence Conran because he has his head up his A@%.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:13
Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
