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Episode 33: Ten Steps
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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On December 22, 2016, Karen Klein got trapped in a snowstorm near the Grand Canyon. But she pushed through it to save her family.

Bought by KUER and KVNF


  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 2
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
Episode 65: The Kingfish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 63: Rochester, 1991
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 60: Finding Sarah and Philip
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 54: Melinda and Clarence
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story. Melinda...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 31:45
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 53: Melinda and Judy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 25:27
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 51: Money Tree
From: Criminal
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When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents’ identities were stolen, but at that time consumer protection services for identity theft vi...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 25:41
  • Purchases: 1
Earthquake! Part 2
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
A Christmas Carol
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge and company -- and several spirits -- tell a tale of redemption...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:09
StoryCorps: Alex Fennell and Janette Fennell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alex Fennell (L) and Janette Fennell (R)
In 1995, two armed men forced Janette Fennell and her husband Greig into the trunk of the Fennell's car. The men drove off with Janette believing t...

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
The Time Tunnel (mix)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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This alternate theme to "The Time Tunnel" has been used on a couple of THE TIME TRAVELER Mondays Late Night Radio Shows, as its end title.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
Unraveling The Family Folklore Passed Through Generations
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: (From left) Maria's father, mother, grandmother, and grandfather at their home in Manila - the same home where they once encountered a supernatural creature. Maria learned about many traditional Filipino beliefs from her grandmother, Conchita Carpio., Credit: Courtesy of the Caoagdan family
In the Philippines superstitions and the existence of supernatural creatures are firmly believed. RadioActive Youth Media reporter Maria Delmar Cao...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
StoryCorps: Kai Leigh Harriott and Aja David
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Aja (left), Kai (middle) and their mother Tonya David.
Aja David and her younger sister, Kai Leigh Harriott, remember the night Kai was hit...

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Learning to Lie
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week, we take a deep look at how and why we learn to lie, and what lying does to you

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair (30 Min Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather., Credit: Teri Havens
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 2
March 10, 1945
From: Will Rogers
Caption: Bob Quin in leather jacket
I brought a microphone when I visited my grandfather, and he told stories I'd never heard. This is one of those stories, with original music and so...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Dennis and Barbara Hale
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dennis Hale tells his wife, Barbara, about being the sole survivor of the Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck on Lake Huron in 1966.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, WTJU, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Starr Cookman and Kylee Moreland Fenton
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Star Cookman (L) and Kylee Moreland Fenton (R)
Starr Cookman (L) and Kylee Moreland Fenton (R) talk about being best friends for more than 30 years.

Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 2
THE LEGACY OF EURIAH PILLAR
From: Steven Oney
Series: CAPE COD RADIO MYSTERY THEATER
Caption: 'THE LEGACY OF EURIAH PILLAR, Credit: SCOTT DICKIE
A Captain Waverly Underhill mystery: A death in the family can be expensive. When an eccentric millionaire leaves a bizarre will, it can cost a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 41:39
'THE CALLER ON LINE ONE'
From: Steven Oney
Series: CAPE COD RADIO MYSTERY THEATER
Caption: THE CALLER ON LINE ONE, Credit: SCOTT DICKIE
A Radio Thriller (part of the CAPE COD RADIO MYSTERY THEATER series to be uploaded soon) Our most popular radio thriller.

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 35:22
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: "Shunning Sarah" by Julie Kramer
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Shunning Sarah by Julie Kramer
National Bestselling Author Julie Kramer is back with her newest book titled "Shunning Sarah." In this Real Good Words interview Heidi Holtan inter...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 17:37
  • Purchases: 1
Dingmantics #14: Sandra From Avenue Z (Live)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
Tales from the South 070: Tin Roof Project with Bobby Cole
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
Caption: Mossy Oak's Bobby Cole
Tin Roof Project #16, featuring Mossy Oak's Bobby Cole telling his story of being at his hunting camp and what can happen in the middle of the nigh...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00