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855: Luminous: Is It The Drug Or The Trip? / 856: Original Sin, 12/16/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Is It The Drug Or The Trip?" - Psychedelic therapy is poised to be the next big thing in mental health. But what if you want t...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
673: Secrets Of Alchemy / 674: Wonders Of The Human Body, 3/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
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
Got Me Hypnotized (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical ...

Bought by WCNY, WLPR , WCMU Michigan, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 9
"Building a Wall": Church and State in America (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFAE, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
Faith on the Fourth
From: Interfaith Voices
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Our Independence Day special has stories on the Fourth of July as an American High Holy Day, the faiths of our founding fathers, and Jefferson's cu...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 52:30
  • Purchases: 1
Conquest upon the White Horse
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Dabbling in religious conspiracy, not even the pope can escape the commentary of this show...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:41:15
The Soul of Guatemala Part II A Shaking in Our Souls
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A Mayan woman praying in an Evangelical Church in Guatemala's Highlands, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: Pastor Omar Bell laying on hands in El Calvario Church, Almolonga, Guatemala, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Latin America has been overwhelmingly Catholic for centuries, but that's changing, and Guatemala is leading the way, as Latin America's Evangelical...

Bought by WXDU, XRAY.fm, KUT, and The Story


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 4
James Irwin (Astronaut), August 8, 1991
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00