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Drowned at Sea
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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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
Linda & Dean Tonto Cox
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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"We never had tepees. We had houses, just like everybody else did."

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
The defection of a Roger Ailes warrior
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
Episode 74: Catastrophe
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. In most cases the floods were seen as an “Act of Go...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:08
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 71: A Bump in the Night
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Amber Dawn was 20 when she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Enumclaw, Washington. On her very first night, she began to notice strange sounds....

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 17:55
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 70: The Procedure
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
  • Purchases: 1
Time Travellers
From: Arlie Adlington
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This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:02
Maureen
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Sparx is a rat terrier Chihuahua, and he doesn’t let people get too close to me, I think for fear that they’re going to hurt me. He’s a good boy.

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
NOLA vs Nature: The Other Biggest Flood In New Orleans History
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Crevasse, viewed from the levee., Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
The only paid climate skeptic who ever flipped
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 41:51
107: One Hundred Percent Jersey Girl
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Find out why you should never mess with Maria. The diaries of a rebellious Jersey Girl growing up in the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud memb...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 25:08
A health insurance executive has a crisis of conscience
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What happens when the executive spin doctor for one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country confronts the consequences of his spin...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 32:37
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 68: All the Time in the World
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one except researchers and law enforcement is able to see, because it’s one of very ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 31:13
Race and the Space Race
From: Richard Paul
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The unlikely story of Civil Rights and the Space Program.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, KWGS, KRCU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 23
Episode 66: Bully
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:10
Part 3: The end of times
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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After innocent civilians were murdered in Tiananmen square, Chinese revolutionaries learned that political activism couldn't be the only solution. ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 14:51
Episode 50: This Is Criminal
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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To celebrate Criminal’s 50th episode, we check in with some of our most memorable guests including Fran Schindler from Episode 17: “Final Exit,” Da...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 36:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Southern Story of Coca Cola (Gravy Ep. 51)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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You might think of Coca Cola as an iconic American brand… but it was born in the South. How did Coke’s Atlanta birthplace shape what the soft drink...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and KVLU


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 25:24
  • Purchases: 2
After Evan
From: Nicki Stein
Caption: Original text message sent to "Evan"
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...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #91: Death on a Dairy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Arminio Órtiz Pérez, Credit: Eilís O’Neill
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 20:18
Life of the Law #90: Kids Doing Life
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
Schnitzel and the Saturn V (Gravy Ep. 42)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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How did Huntsville, Alabama become home to a whole host of German restaurants? It has more to do with rocket science, than with Southerners’ love o...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 33:42
  • Purchases: 1
Great Broadway Choral Numbers
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Many Broadway composers loved the challenge of writing the big choral number. Some were better at it than others. Some fine examples in this progra...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KTXK, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
Cornea-copia
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Adult stem cells (green) and corneal cells (blue) one month after applying to the eye., Credit: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 13:23
At Sea
From: Peter Bresnan
Caption: Sam Bellamy in front of his home in Long Island, NY., Credit: Peter Alexander Bresnan
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1

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