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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #61 - Hour 2
This week we feature a new recording "BERLIN - A Tribute Album for Mark Shreeve", a fine tribute to Mark from several electronic musicians with all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #61 - Hour 1
This week we feature a new recording "BERLIN - A Tribute Album for Mark Shreeve", a fine tribute to Mark from several electronic musicians with all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story version of her famous play, “Trifles”. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, “Alison’s House”.

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 56:33
Caption: The Open Boat, Credit: Robert Quakenbush
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
Caption: Melissa Brooks and Zack Stephney at the site of her rescue in December of 2009. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Zack Stephney.
Zack Stephney remembers saving Melissa Brooks from the unprecedented 2009 Atlanta flash flood.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 2
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This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report tha...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 43:40
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear a story from India about monkey and crocodile. A story that illustrates that a quick wit can be the d...

Bought by KTXK and KKRN


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Have you ever wondered: Why does the elephant have such a long trunk? Rudyard Kipling first answered this question with his Just So Stories. In thi...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 23:19
Caption: Night of April 10/11 catching the last evac flight out of India. , Credit: Anietra Hamper
The conclusion of Escape from India during COVID-19 continues with Anietra sharing more of the roller coaster ordeal that took her and Ian from hop...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2020
  • Length: 23:16
Caption: Ian Henderson fishing on the Mahakali — in Champawat., Credit: Anietra Hamper
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 24:00
Caption: The Iron Curtain, Credit: Teo Ducot
At the height of the Cold War, Ulrike Poppe just might have been the most surveilled woman in the world. But it was only after the wall fell that t...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
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Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:28
Caption: cedar grove overexposed, Credit: DoctorRMB
There are stories. And then, there are STORIES. The kind that stick with you because they are bare and true. And because they make the world look a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 2
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John “Sonny” Franzese was once described as “largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He’d been active in the...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 23:46
  • Purchases: 1
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John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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When Tyler Wetherall was a kid, her mother and father packed up the family car and drove through the night. They were on the run from the FBI. And ...

Bought by ABC and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 26:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next Snap, a very special presentation of Spooked... You never know what might be hiding inside the walls--spiders, mice, or much, much wor...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
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Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 24:39
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In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roommate. Detectives asked her to help gather inform...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 34:29
Caption: Jennifer Mack (left) and Glennette Rozelle (right)
Sisters Glennette Rozelle and Jennifer Mack remember the night that changed their family.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Keven Joyce, umpiring a JV baseball game in Plymouth, Credit: Otis Gray
50 years after the infamous Battle of Hue, a Vietnam vet talks about living with memories you have no choice but to carry.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
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An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 23:07
  • Purchases: 3