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To mark the passing of Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, the GroundTruth Project presents a special one hour program that traces the path o...
Bought by Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, WORT, KOSU and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 37
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
- Length: 30:30
We begin our episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances contributed by Perilous Chronicle. We close out the episode with a call from ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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
The judgment of an untested president is all that stands between us and WWIII.
Bought by KCRW, KMUN, KWMR, KUOW, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 16
Investigative journalist Luke Harding talks about his time in Russia, dealings with the FSB, and one of his most valued sources, ex-MI6 agent Chris...
- Added: Sep 08, 2020
- Length: 20:21
Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television.
This piece was produced ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
"The Price of Infection!" Can Nurse Susie find a way to deliver vital antiviral medicine while navigating hospital bureaucracy while fending off th...
- Added: Jul 18, 2020
- Length: 29:30
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
Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 37:16
Cardiologist Dhruv Kazi recounts the heart-stopping tale of an emergency medical encounter in North Korea.
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 36:33
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mike describes his concern for train safety, which eventually puts his own career on the line.
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 28:04
The story of the role of radio in the Vietnam War — with actual airchecks of North Vietnamese propaganda, Armed Forces radio and underground GI bro...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 1
Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 02:17:14
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
For the past several months I have been covering the largest religious conversion the world has ever seen, Christianity in China. It is a story tha...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 02:19
Host Bob Kustra interviews Marton about her book about Stalin's last American spy.
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 30:30
An American scientific research ship responds to a sinking boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 1
Why nuclear energy is a main source of energy for Ontario and who is using renewables?. And how lawsuits silence environmentalists.
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 12:18
Which Roosevelt, you might ask? Find out as author Michael Wolraich reads from his bracing new book. Good cocktail hour fodder. Just a sample readi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Author Charles Spencer reads again from his gripping book (a best seller in England), "Killers of The King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I....
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and ambushed a grandfather and grandson, killing bot...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 4
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Eric Schlosser, the investigative reporter of Fast Food Nation fame, has assembled what reads like a Letterman list of hair-raising nuclear bungles...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 23:56
- Purchases: 1
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 ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 4