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Caption: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes, 1980., Credit: Alan Lessik
In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:31:39
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A story about doing things a little differently.

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
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Cardiologist Dhruv Kazi recounts the heart-stopping tale of an emergency medical encounter in North Korea.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 36:33
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The electronic medical record and a list of to-dos distract family medicine resident Milana Pebenito from her patient's impending death.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:04
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Grand Smith, chief resident in internal medicine at UCSF, recounts the story of his first code blue.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 23:16
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In the hospital, pediatrician Dana Gal struggles with a young patient who asserts her autonomy in ways that are frustrating, and even dangerous.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 34:33
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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
Caption: Cindy Carpenter Straub at her campsite on Pine Lake before the Blowdown storm. Submitted photo to WTIP
Twenty years ago this summer the Boundary Waters and other parts of northern Minnesota were impacted by what is forever known as the Blowdown storm...

  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 11:15
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A novel about the Dakota Sioux people and their lifestyle prior to the arrival of the settlers.

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 12:06:02
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Bob Kustra interviews Ben Macintyre about his book "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
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An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Bob Kustra speaks with James A. McLaughlin about his debut novel "Bearskin"

  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:05
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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 fictional novel about a horse that gets lost/stolen and a young boy's journey to recover it. Along the way finding a medicine bundle that was lef...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:15:01
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Munitions expert Jack ReVelle remembers the aftermath of January 24, 1961, when a U.S. military plane accidentally dropped two hydrogen bombs into ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:52
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Susan Purvis discusses her memoir, "Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost and Myself." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 4
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Bloodshed on the desert highway.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. Giants, aliens, underground cities of gold!

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A sketch about two office workers. A conversation at the water cooler turns supernatural...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 03:36
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Bebop by way of Supersax then the real Charlie Parker christens the start of our first hour then all brand-new literal CDs (as opposed to even down...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KRZA, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 7
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"Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
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As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and prop...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:38
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It's the 1970s and Exxon Research and Development wants to be the "Bell Labs of Energy."

  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 19:18