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When Everything Goes Wrong
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when the perfect solo day hike becomes the ultimate disaster? How do we arrange things better, so that we don't wind up feeding the vu...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
The Eighth Tower
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is nev...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
"All We Want To Do Is Leave" - Part 2
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: Escaping from India during COVID-19
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
Episode 23: Into the Ice
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the insid...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 33:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Haunted Petroglyph
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 105: Protection
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Episode 101: The Fox
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 22:48
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 100: Ten Thousand Feet in the Air
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.

Bought by ABC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 31:31
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 96: On the Run
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Episode 81: Unexpected Guests
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Three mysteries we can’t stop thinking about.

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 33:48
  • Purchases: 2
Part 2: Christian China
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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We travel to China and find ourselves dancing in between the communist government and religion, outsiders and Christianity, parents and the next ge...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:53
Introducing Christian China and the end of times
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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For the past several months I have been covering the largest religious conversion the world has ever seen, Christianity in China. It is a story tha...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:19
Episode 8: Row Row Row Your Boat. Or Not.
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It was supposed to be a leisurely float down the Snake River. But when they lost their guide, a group of tourists got more than they bargained for.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 16:22
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 12: Avalanche on Pikes Peak
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
Caption: Pikes Peak
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:02
Escapade: I
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Series: Circumference
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Tattoo artist Ron White goes through several generations to tell us how he got to where he is today. It's not what you're expecting. Part one of th...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:21
Seeing in the Dark
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human, stories of people whose vision changed, first throwing them in the dark, then revealing something new.

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:24
  • Purchases: 3
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
Deep Sound
From: Annie McEwen
Caption: Deep Sound being assembled, Credit: David Barclay
David Barclay tells the story of the time he recorded the deepest sounds in the ocean.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations 108: Richard de Crespigny
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Richard de Crespigny
A conversation with Richard de Crespigny, the pilot in command of flight QF 32 out of Singapore, when one of its engines exploded, crippling the fl...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Huskey - Kidnapped in Caracas, Venezuela
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Steve Huskey
In 2003, Steve Huskey was just stepping out of a taxi in Caracas, Venezuela, when an imposing man told him to get in his car or else be killed. Ste...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 27:37