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It's Witchcraft: Songs For A Haunted Halloween (Special)

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials

On this episode, we explore some of the most haunting, bewitching, and eerie tunes from the Great American Songbook for the haunted holiday of Hall...

Bought by KCNP, Troy Public Radio, WVPE, Raven Radio, KCNP and more

172: Dancing Plague

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

During the 1300-1500s there were several accounts of people being afflicted with spontaneous dancing. One group of 400 people were struck with the ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio

S1 E3 Out Of The Way

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine

Hospitalist Ann Knapp navigates her own doubts and assumptions when her patient, a ninety-year-old man, states he wants to die -- today.

Lighting the Fire Once Again, Encore

From: Wind & Rhythm

This week on Wind & Rhythm, we reprise a program from 2018: music about fire, fireworks, firestorm, fire dance, and fiery birds. We’ll hear John Ma...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTXK, WUAL, and KMFA

60 Watts 039

From: Brian Babinec
Series: 60 Watts

(For release week of 13 Aug 2018) Coming straight from the United States' grunge capital itself, 60 Watts is Public Radio's weekly underground and ...

Bought by KRSC

60 Watts 038

From: Brian Babinec
Series: 60 Watts

(For release week of 06 Aug 2018) Coming straight from the United States' grunge capital itself, 60 Watts is Public Radio's weekly underground and ...

Bought by KRSC and Goat Radio

Lighting the Fire

From: Wind & Rhythm

This week on Wind & Rhythm, it’s music about fire, fireworks, firestorm, fire dance, and fiery birds. We’ll hear John Mackey’s “Kingfishers Catch...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA

The Murders a Town Wanted to Forget

From: Barbara Paulsen

Caption: A tour guide shows where Abby Borden was murdered., Credit: Barbara Paulsen

On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with an ax at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Can a century-old brutal murder save t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Sweeney Todd

From: WQXR
Series: For the Record

In this episode For the Record Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

Episode 155: Spoooooker Of The House

From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes

Lesbian psychics and Jeb’s exclamation point ruin Halloween

Episode 148: The Best of The West

From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes

No New Yorkers were harmed - or used - in the making of this episode. It's just Hitler and suicide and anal feeding, and all that other mellow West...

Placed in Bedlam

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Nine year old Gary Hayman ran away from a Rhode Island mental hospital in 1952 and sparked the biggest manhunt in state history.

Bought by PRX Remix

The Beat: Rich Broderick - "Grendel In the City"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Mike Finley recites a poem by Rich Broderick. Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems...

The Beat: Dallas Crow - "The Haunting"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ

The Beat: Mark Conway - "In His Electric Chair"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Mark Conway is a 2012 recipient of an artist initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. And he is the Director of the Literary Arts Inst...