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No-No Boy
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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After World War 2, a Japanese-American draft resister tries to find his way

Bought by KMUN, KKRN, KCHW, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 11
A Shortcut Back to 9/11-The 20th Anniversary Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Remembering 9/11
A look back on September 11, 2001 on the 20th Anniversary with new music and additional material on Afghanistan, small and just wars and "The War O...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - Reaching for the Moon
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode, we hear a story from Australian storyteller Jenni Cargill Strong, about a king who orders the royal carpenters to build him a towe...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 163: The Ghoul of Grays Harbor
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 32:13
Austin Moontowers and The Servant Girl Annihilator
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: TSBVI Summer 2021
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Austin's bright moon towers can be traced back to a series of 19th century killer known as the "Servant Girl Annihilator"

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 08:34
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
172: Dancing Plague
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1300-1500s there were several accounts of people being afflicted with spontaneous dancing. One group of 400 people were struck with the ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Betrayed
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Hope and heartbreak in Iraq's Green Zone.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 21
The Dark Watchers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Where there are mountains, there are mysteries. Tonight we visit with some old friends who've long haunted the Indians, the Spaniards and the Ameri...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 151: The Many Lives of Michael Malloy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
That Which Is But Isn't
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tales From Wonder Valley
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Tonight we bring you strange & terrible tales from Wonder Valley, California: the very edge of Southern California civilization, last outpost of hu...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.

Bought by KFCF FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Other Room
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Patsy Rembert and Winfred Rembert
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Patsy and Winfred Rembert at their StoryCorps interview in Hamden, CT in April of 2017. , Credit: By Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.
73-year-old Winfred Rembert is one of the only people ever known to have survived a lynching. At StoryCorps, he sat down with his wife, Patsy, to r...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
Exacting the Legacy of the Old Anoka Hospital
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Cottage No. 8 at the Anoka State Hospital, Credit: Mike Moen
It’s been 20 years since the Anoka State Hospital closed its doors. It was replaced by a newer facility for those dealing with mental illness in th...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 120: The Tunnel
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 20:27
  • Purchases: 1
S2 E9 Dead To Me
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1987 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathol...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 33:35
Founding Documents: The Bill of Rights
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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A "nauseous project" becomes a bulwark of liberty.

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 23:40
  • Purchases: 4
Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Skinwalker Ranch
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
MIDNIGHT IN THE ASYLUM CEMETERY
From: Diane Ladley
Series: Hist-eerie
Caption: Image is an actual photo taken by a ghost tour guest inside the asylum cemetery. Could this be the infamous "Gassy Ghost"?
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1

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