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Door to Suspense featuring Frank Sinatra
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Door to Suspense
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Door to Suspense #6 featuring Frank Sinatra in: Songs By Sinatra 9/19/45 CBS, Suspense “To Find Help” 1/18/45 CBS.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Door to Suspense featuring Marie Wilson
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Door to Suspense
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Door to Suspense #5 featuring Marie Wilson in: My Friend Irma 2/23/48 CBS, Suspense “Star Over Hong Kong” 2/22/59 CBS.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Area 51's Mysterious Petroglyph: Pahranagat Man
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Now that it's good & hot outside, let's wander the high desert boulder-strewn hills of Nevada's Lincoln County. Home to Pahranagat Man, a very spec...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Door to Suspense featuring Ralph Edwards
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Door to Suspense
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Door to Suspense #4 featuring Ralph Edwards in: Truth or Consequences 6/23/45 NBC, Suspense “Ghost Hunt” 6/23/49 CBS.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Door to Suspense featuring Judy Garland
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Door to Suspense
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Door to Suspense #3 featuring Judy Garland in: Mail Call 4/11/45 AFRS, Suspense “Drive-In” 11/21/46 CBS.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Door to Suspense featuring Ronald Colman
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Door to Suspense
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Door to Suspense #2 featuring Ronald Colman in: Halls of Ivy 1/3/51 NBC, Suspense “A Vision of Death” 3/8/51 CBS.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Door to Suspense featuring Lucille Ball
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Door to Suspense
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Door to Suspense #1 featuring Lucille Ball in: My Favorite Husband 2/29/45 CBS, Suspense "A Little Piece of Rope" 10/14/48 CBS.

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Last Blast of Winter
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode about the desert in winter, appropriate for our spring blast of rain and snow and cold, cold te...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • 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
Episode 171: Sealand
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 49:00
Episode 165: Unfit
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Ep. 31: Murder Cliff: The Death of Mary Fridley Price
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Frederick Price, convicted of the murder of Mary Fridley Price in 1916.
The plain, uninteresting Mary Fridley Price. Not the sort of girl anyone would notice—except now she'd gone and leapt over a cliff to save her poor...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 18:43
Alien Corpses of the Great Basin
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Armada of the Dragoons
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes b...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 149: Dr. Parkman Is Missing
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 36:45
Episode 146: Ten Doors
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
Concrete Jesus
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a live of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-p...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • 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
Mountain of the Stars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in the scorching hot radio studio with an all-new episode of the radio show that Palm Springs Life magazine named the "Best Freaky Radi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
When Doomsday Came Calling by Mistake
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Our producer Flawn Williams once got caught up in a sticky situation that triggered fears of a nuclear attack while working at a Chicago TV station...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
I Spy: Spies Who Pushed Back
From: Rob Sachs
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On this hour-long special we hear from two former intelligence people who, like whistleblowers in the Trump administration, pushed back against per...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WHYY, WAMU, WWNO and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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
Ode to the Old Gods
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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
The Orange Grove
From: Kate Madara
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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