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Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed that he wanted to die in order to atone for what h...
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 27:50
Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 17:28
- Purchases: 1
In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier’s stash house. He was told he’d take home between $100K...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 19:35
In our latest Innovate CSR podcast, Nick Stellino discusses his shift from Wall Street to being a chef with his own successful TV cooking shows. Tu...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 38:32
In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But whi...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 24:53
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 1901, San Francisco’s mayor, James D. Phelan, hiked up to an oak tree near the north bank of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite’s Hetc...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 14:02
Anna Reidy is unable to forget the sound of the "war games" her family involved her in when she was a child, in this detailed report on the organiz...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 10:55
For the past year, KBIA has been working on an investigative story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It’s a story with threads ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 28:30
The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...
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- Length: 01:02:17
It was 1945, Joe Prinster was just hours into his high school diploma when he was told to "pack and be ready to get on the train in the morning...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 01:35
The birth of a child is life-changing. For the wallet, the lifestyle and the fact that there’s another human to care for.
But for many California ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 09:23
A few hours north of San Francisco is the town of Boonville, nestled in the quaint Anderson Valley of Mendocino County. Like Silicon Valley, this p...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 13:24
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 01:44
Nearly every city in the US has a Tenderloin. Here in San Francisco, it’s a neighborhood home to a dozen social service agencies, low-rent resident...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:52
Nearly 500 inmates serving life sentences have been freed from California prisons since voters passed Proposition 36 last November. The law authori...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 22:29
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...
Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 16, 2011
- Length: 11:28
- Purchases: 5
Harry Markopolos tried for nearly ten years to expose Bernard Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme, but it didn't do any good. Why didn’t a...
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- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 13:13
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 29:00
With the conflict in Afghanistan heating up again, we revisit past pieces about the country to get a better understanding of its current situation.
Bought by KGOU and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Police wrestle with solutions for St. Louis gang problem
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 26, 2008
- Length: 06:48
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2008
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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- Added: Aug 08, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 08, 2008
- Length: 29:00
What really happens to white collar criminals when they go away to prison
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, Hearing Voices, KUSP, and KUCB
- Added: Jan 02, 2006
- Length: 07:07
- Purchases: 5