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99% Invisible #145- Octothorpe (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The surprisingly long history of the "#"- whatever it's called.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #91- Wild Ones (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Humans watching humans watching animals.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 30:41
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #104- Tunnel 57 (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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You couldn't climb over the Berlin Wall. You couldn't go around it. The only way was under.

Bought by KPIK-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 20:13
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #121- Cold War Kids (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
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Planning for the bomb

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 20:49
99% Invisible #110- Structural Integrity (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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When Manhattan was almost flattened.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 22:19
99% Invisible #103- U.T.B.A.P.H. (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The everlasting architecture of Pizza Hut.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 15:46
99% Invisible #130- Holdout (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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A story of steadfastness

Bought by KUOW, KPIK-LP, KHNS, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 4
99% Invisible #154- PDX Carpet (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Portland's magic carpet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WMUU-LP, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #162- Mystery House (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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More unbelievable than a haunted mansion: a female architect.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #159 -The Calendar (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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30 days hath September. All the rest I don't remember.

Bought by ABC, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 23
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
99% Invisible #164 -The Post-Billiards Age (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The ivory trade and the dawn of plastics

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 18
Hum...
From: Terrascope Radio
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A short, evocative audio postcard made while visiting power-generation facilities in northern California.

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:22
99% Invisible #151- La Mascotte (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What's under the suit.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WMUU-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 21
99% Invisible #150- Under the Moonlight (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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How the city of Austin bought the moon.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KVNF, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 21
99% Invisible #145- Octothorpe (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The surprisingly long history of the "#"- whatever it's called.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 23
99% Invisible #148- The Sizzle (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They don't sell the steak. They sell the sizzle.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WMUU-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #144- There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A lightbulb that's been on for over a hundred years.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #142- And The Winner Is (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A trip to the factory where the Oscars are made.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
Body of Water
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: http://bodyofwater.ca/, Credit: Rebecca Roher
An ode to urban lake swimming

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #143- Inflatable Men (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
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They are men. Men made of tubes. Tubes full of air.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 7
99% Invisible #140- Vexillonaire (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Never tolerate a mediocre flag.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 21
99% Invisible #139- Edge Of Your Seat (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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"Sitting is the new smoking"

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rhythm & News Service, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #135- For Amusement Only (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The long battle to legalize... pinball.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #137- Good Bread (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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It's not about white or wheat. It's everything else.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 20