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🔍 Join #TheNotOldBetterShow in partnership with #SmithsonianAssociates for an enthralling episode! 🎧 We delve into "The Sisterhood: The Secret Hist...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 33:50
Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 07, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 49:00
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 44:17
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 36:45
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
A peek behind the curtain of a classic horror soundtrack
- Added: Feb 21, 2020
- Length: 38:30
This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women’s rights advocate Debora Diniz joins fellow activists and philanthropists to discuss...
Bought by KMUN, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
It's our Halloween Special! Join us as we encounter the spookier side of Fort Meigs with the Garrison Ghost Walk. It's a night-time stroll through ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2019
- Length: 06:17
When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 27:01
- Purchases: 1
One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 26:51
- Purchases: 1
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
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
This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 22:48
- Purchases: 1
On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.
Bought by ABC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 31:31
- Purchases: 2
Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:39
50 years after the infamous Battle of Hue, a Vietnam vet talks about living with memories you have no choice but to carry.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 27:10
In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 26:14
- Purchases: 1
In part one of our "China's road to Jerusalem" series, we set the the stage for the inevitable collapse of the west as we know it.
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 12:22
In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we'll be entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the for...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 05:59
In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: “We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for a...
Bought by WFAE
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 29:37
- Purchases: 1
On this very special Halloween edition of The Live Feed, Winonan Taff Roberts takes us on a ghastly journey to main and then drops us off in Pickwi...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 49:51
Tattoo artist Ron White goes through several generations to tell us how he got to where he is today. It's not what you're expecting. Part one of th...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 12:21
Bobby speaks with Mark Anthony, the "psychic lawyer" or "psychic attorney" of which he owns both trademarks. His best selling book, “Never Letting ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:11:36