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The Nature of Vision and Color
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especia...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Night has fallen on the desert. The year is still fresh and new. We don’t all have to talk about stoves, all the sudden. We can do better. Let’s d...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Like a Hurricane
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the Western Mojave around Joshua Tree National Park and all the way out to Kelso and Las Vegas and...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Swarm
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Are the mystery drones back? Did they ever leave? We travel from the desert to the sea and back again, chasing those odd manifestations that have l...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sanguine Script part 3
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: The Sanguine Script
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 3!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:30
Of Fire and Monsters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life Dasit - Ep.4 - Less Fear
From: Rene Dongo
Series: Life Dasit
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This fourth episode explores the emotion of fear >_< Where does it hide and why does it flourish? In this show the interview is with photographer E...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 41:41
Part 1: The road back to Jerusalem
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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In part one of our "China's road to Jerusalem" series, we set the the stage for the inevitable collapse of the west as we know it.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 12:22
Instinct to Kill
From: Sam Anderson
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A Brooklyn reporter goes hunting with his father for the first time. This piece explores the emotional cost of hunting and asks whether or not the ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 23:45
Bliss
From: Philip Armand
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Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
The Mosquito Crusader
From: Jake Smith
Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine
Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
188-Deep Listen
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will 100 million dollars in grant funds be enough for humans to discover a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack?

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
StoryCorps: Rick and Diana Abath
From: StoryCorps
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Rick Abath tells his wife, Diana, about being the night security guard at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the biggest art heist in ...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 3
Evinrude
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: Short Audio Fiction
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A teenager employs exotic methods to recreate the sensations of his flying dreams. A literary and funky mix of words, music and thoughtful sound d...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 11:22
Escape from Tehran
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Soft spoken Thai chef, Somchai Sirweawneter, went from the frying pan to the fire when he answered a call from the American Embassy at the height o...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Hear acclaimed authors including Michael Chabon (Wonderboys), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), and Walter Mosley discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's coming...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 6
Tales from the South 40
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Crane and the Straitjacket
From: KUOW
Caption: Joey Pipia , Credit: Frank Ross
A struggling magician, struck with crippling osteoarthritis, decides to risk everything for the stunt of his life--escaping from a straitjacket whi...

Bought by WEZU, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 3
"Proofs" read by author Richard Rodriguez
From: Amy Wallen
Series: DimeStories
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Two views of crossing the border

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, The Story, PRX Remix, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 7
Lost and Found, Lost in Thought
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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New views of getting lost

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:14
Careful What You Shoot
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Two men tell stories about gun accidents and talk about the responsibility that comes with handling firearms

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
In Place and Out of Character
From: Emily Feder
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Audio Portraits of three refugee families living in New York City

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WYSO


  • Added: Jul 01, 2005
  • Length: 26:04
  • Purchases: 2
Reconstructing Providence: Adaptive Reuse, Urban Revitalization, & Neighborhood Change
From: Robin Amer
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Artists vs. developers vs. the city. The adaptive reuse of historic mill buildings in Providence, and all the controversy that's come with it.

Bought by WMFE, WMPG, and WZBC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2004
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 3