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The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of Augus...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 39:50
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
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Episode Fifteen – I almost hear his thoughts, he’s praying for a miracle. D’laska has made some bad decisions, yet he feels he is progressing. Ain...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
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In this hour we'll hear a story from Judith Black, a story of goodness and honesty and see what happens when the Lord of the Wind must be appeased ...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:53
  • Purchases: 4
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, you'll hear an old tale about a community of animals who's welfare depends on learning the name of a mysterious ...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: BELI-E-E-E-VE
KBBX radio Journalist Charlie O'Dowd bites off more than he can chew after strong-arming an informant into an interview that reveals a lethal consp...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 12:18
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Bob Kustra interviews novelist Chris Bohjalian about his latest best-seller "The Flight Attendant"

  • Added: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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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
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 1!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:41
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 1!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:03
Caption: American Horror Story's Denis O'Hare, Credit: FX Networks
Denis O’Hare (“American Horror Story”, Tony winner for Take Me Out), and Kristine Nielsen (Tony nominee for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) st...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The season finale! The crew travels to another dimension where they can invade the space rock beneath the lake. Where they discover...a carnival!...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:06:31
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At the radio station, the crew gathers to listen to the mysterious alien signals and figure out what to do. Peggy the alien is sure the residents ...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 35:10
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Cody, Dr Graves and Abby visit the morgue to ID Jennifer’s body and talk about what to do next. Cody has decided that getting Jennifer back is key...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 34:31
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Now there’s a mysterious body in the box, and slowly and surely everyone realizes the someone IS Grandpa. They had been hypnotised to believe the ...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 31:21
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Police Chief Sam tries to sort through the nonsense happening at the station and ends up arresting Dr Graves on suspicion. Meanwhile, Cody learns ...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 30:37
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Cody is at the hospital recovering from the blow while everyone remains ignorant of who attacked him. Barb breaks into the station to retrieve a m...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 23:53
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With Jennifer gone, Cody has taken some time off and everyone else is struggling to keep the radio plays coming. But the next play seems eerily pr...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 26:53
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The ghosts of Graves Manor have all disappeared and Dr Graves is heartbroken. Meanwhile, JJ tries to salvage Barb’s play while Jennifer and Cody t...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 26:56
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Abby, JJ and Cody try to figure out why everything’s working perfectly when the ghost of Dr Graves appears reminding everyone that they forgot abou...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 26:44
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It’s Christmas time and everyone’s trying to get their yule log on. But disappointment is in the air as Abby can’t get Jennifer to open up about h...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:24
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JJ invites Cody’s grandfather - and the station’s founder - in to try and discover what Jennifer did to save things. Then nearly wrecks everything...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 25:50
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Jennifer hears a ghost in the attic and thinks it might a prank until the rest of the crew lets her know the truth: Rudiger - the ghost rumored to ...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 28:33
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JJ the station manager is crushing on Abby and looks to the romantically inept Cody for advice. Meanwhile, the mysterious Jennifer ingratiates her...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 23:01
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Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:40