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Journey's End
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The classic World War I story about life in the trenches

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 5
Samhain Stories For All Hallows' Eve
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, and here comes the  ancient festival of Halloween, as the world begins to die again ... as it does at the tail end ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Death Valley Winter with the Lost '49ers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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"Gentlemen!" yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, "All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Phantom Plane Crash on a Utah Highway
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happened to Army Private Gerry Irwin on a Utah two-lane? There was no plane crash, no passengers, nothing by Pvt. Irwin unconscious in the Uta...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)
From: Alex Lewis
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Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television. This piece was produced ...

Bought by WFHB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Snap Classic : The Iron Curtain, 5/28/2020
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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
John Harrison and the Music of Creepshow
From: IJ Wilson
Caption: Square logo for documentary, Credit: IJ Wilson
A peek behind the curtain of a classic horror soundtrack

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 38:30
Episode 123: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 1
Culmination of the Pleiades
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Washington Surrendered and Lincoln Didn't
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:17:14
Ep.05: Trekking to the North Pole & The World's Fridge
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
Tuned to Yesterday #5
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Tuned to Yesterday
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Tuned to Yesterday #5 Adventure Broadcasts include, "Suspense" and "Escape".

Bought by WMUU-LP and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
"England to Australia, 1914"
From: Margaret Evans
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 26:31
SITPE # 1252
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Looking back.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
The 2nd Most Haunted House In D.C.
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: D.C.'s Octagon House is legendary for its ghostly lore., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
A ghostly tour of Washington, D.C.'s second-most haunted house, where many a thing may -- or may not -- go bump in the night...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
Lizzie Borden
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Bought by KICI Iowa City, RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WPSU, KPIK-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 15
Killer Al
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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A patient seeks revenge on an evil doctor.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Mary Celeste
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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The Mary Celeste ghost ship

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KZMU Moab Community Radio, 'The Sea', WPSU, WCBE and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 11
Ghosts of Gary
From: Robin Amer
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The story of one abandoned movie theater is the story of this very post-industrial city. People haunt places, and places haunt people.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUT, PRX Remix, and Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser)


  • Added: Jan 10, 2009
  • Length: 19:14
  • Purchases: 4
The Telephantom
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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The Telephantom

Bought by WPSU, WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 6
Abe Lincoln's Security Check
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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Abe Lincoln's Security Check

Bought by WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WPSU, KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 10