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Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23
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From the top of Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. An...

  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:08:41
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When neighbors Steve Gray and Anat Harrel of Kibbutz Hanaton in the Upper Galilee lost their jobs as tour guides due to the pandemic, they decided ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 36:04
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We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Mount Calvary congregation standing outside the church, ca. 1950s, Credit: Ric Sheffield, Knox County Black History Archives at Kenyon College
A piece of local history audio storytelling exploring a now-defunct predominantly black church in Mount Vernon, Ohio, through the voices of its for...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 16:07
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An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 21:47
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The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 18:17
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In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 47:26
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Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 44:34
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Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
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Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She claimed to speak to the dead, and even produce p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Coverglass and matt bound together with black paper tape. View looking along the 1200 block of Governor Nicholls Street in Treme, with the church visible in midview. , Credit:  The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mrs. Joy Segura, acc. no. 2004.0096.68
This is a special edition of TriPod New Orleans @300. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson handed the mic over to the New Orleans Scholars, a group of st...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:10
Caption:  Photograph of Mother Catherine and her congregation at the Temple of the Innocent Blood, ca. 1929. , Credit:  Historic New Orleans Collection, made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a portrait of Mother Catherine Seals, one of the city’s most prominent 20th century spiritual church leaders.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:24
Caption: The entrance to the Sisters of The Holy Family Motherhouse on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, Credit:  Laine Kaplan-Levenson / WWNO
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of The Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order of nuns for free women of color founded by He...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:25
Caption: Alan McCoy in St. Roch Cemetery No. 2, Credit:  Laine Kaplan-Levenson / WWNO
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of the city’s above ground cemeteries, and those working behind the scenes.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:47
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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
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With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 47:05
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He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 26:10
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The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 24:45
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Johnny Appleseed was a real man...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:31:51
Caption: Sam Bellamy in front of his home in Long Island, NY., Credit: Peter Alexander Bresnan
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how the God Intoxicated Man, Benedict Spinoza, seeded the Englightenment and became the philosopher for today.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:38
  • Purchases: 2
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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 43:00
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In this episode, we ask how Colorado Springs' evangelical Christian community has changed in the decade since former New Life Church Pastor Ted Hag...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:59