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Episode 30: The Agreement
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier’s stash house. He was told he’d take home between $100K...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 19:35
Episode 155: Spoooooker Of The House
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Lesbian psychics and Jeb’s exclamation point ruin Halloween

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 54:17
TJ English discusses "Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World that Made Him"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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TJ English is an award winning journalist and screenwriter.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 16:14
Drones At Liberty: Part 1
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is the first of a two-part program based on a symposium to be held at Indiana University called Reconfiguring Global Space The Geography, Poli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:42
Episode 18: 695BGK
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 2
The End Of The Road: Danger And The Perception Of Danger On Interstate 95
From: Kenny Malone
Caption: Interstate 95 unceremoniously ends in Miami, dumping drivers onto US1., Credit: Greg Castillo for WLRN
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 2
Politics on the Spot: The Houston Ship Channel
From: Michael May
Caption: The Texas Petrochemicals flare., Credit: Bryan Parras
We've heard a lot about the economy this general election season. Not so much about the other big E-word: the environment. Unless you count the man...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
A Coping Mechanism
From: Joseph Jordan
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Two young men from Cape Cod make a documentary about heroin addiction in Massachusetts -- as a way of coping with their own recovery.

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reenacting The Last Mass Lynching in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Episode 10: Dear Sheila
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Working as a reporter for a TV station in New Hampshire, Kevin Flynn was covering the capture and arrest of a female serial killer named Sheila LaB...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 1
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
Control: The Stanford Prison Experiment
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:03
  • Purchases: 5
Not Worth 1000 Words
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Photos of the rape and murder of two Dalit girls in Badaun were shocking, but the pictures shocking as they are are not worth a 1000 words because ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 2: Pants On Fire
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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For nearly a century we’ve been trying to read someone’s truthfulness by the way they act — through machine, or our own intuition. The police, the ...

Bought by ABC, KPIK-LP, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 4
Glitter Crimes
From: Trevor Hultner
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Two environmental activists were arrested in Oklahoma City last year on charges of simulating a terrorist attack. Originally produced for Radio Dis...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:57
India's most wanted phone
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Police officials escort a suspect (C), in the gang-rape of a female photographer, from a crime branch unit station in Mumbai., Credit: First Post
The most wanted cellphone in the country belongs to someone no one had heard of a week ago - a 21-year-old resident of Central Mumbai. The phone’s...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Durga's Murder Part 2
From: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Series: Who killed 8 year old Durga Owens?
Caption: Durga Owens
The ongoing "investigation" in Alaska of 8 year old Durga Owens is now in its 13th year.

  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
All Mixed Up-Boston Marathon
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: April 15th, 2013
April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:47
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Lucinda Marker and John Tull
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Escape by Death, Credit: T Woodard
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 104: Alison
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Alison
A conversation with 'Alison', a South African woman at the center of one of the most infamous criminal trials in her country's history.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
Taking A Break From Gang Life
From: Candice Ludlow
Series: Gangs in the City
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Former Traveling Vice Lord talks about how he got involved in gangs to being imprisoned for transporting a couple kilos of marijuana to deciding to...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
Syria's YouTube Revolution
From: Latitude News
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As the Syrian revolution unfolded over the last year, Syrian-Americans have been glued to YouTube - the primary source of information from the war ...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1