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In 2013, Neil Hayward was depressed. He had just left the biotech company he helped start, and he was getting over the end of a very serious relati...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 13:53
- Purchases: 2
Here's Gerald's audio book review of BMW 5-Series M Car by Robert P. Hall
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 03:07
Sam won’t tell you this, but he’s a really great athlete. He has another secret, too. There’s this photo of him leading a ski race, and it’s plaste...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 17:19
- Purchases: 1
For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains is a source of pride and peace; for his mom and dad it is a source of constant worry...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 18, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
This week's hour long radio episode takes you from the finish line of the Boston Marathon, to the trails that snake through the White Mountains, an...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KUT
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 2
Audio stories about what happens when people play sports only for themselves. These are the weekend warriors, the beer leaguers and the rec team al...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 01:48:03
Two stories about people fighting and overcoming tough odds: First, the tale of Tony Bosco, who camped in the woods around Rutgers University for m...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 56:28
- Purchases: 1
The rise and fall of the Keene Pumpkin Festival, a quaint New England tradition that took a dark turn when riots broke out in 2014. Plus, the calme...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 56:27
- Purchases: 1
In 2015 about 2,700 of the 50,000 people who applied will receive a moose permit in Maine and if you’re one of the lucky ones who has waited 20 yea...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 1
When a Harvard professor accidentally let Gypsy Moths loose in the 1860s, he didn't release he was unleashing a scourge that would plague New Engla...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
There used to be a time when you could strike out into the vast unexplored wilderness and stake your claim – but not anymore. Today, the story of ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:27
Technology advances at breakneck speed, so why hasn’t the electric grid changed in 60 years? This week’s episode explores things, that for one rea...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
Tyler Armstrong is 12-years-old. He loves video games, laser tag, and he wants to become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest. In this episo...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 58:29
Ever since becoming a reporter, Sam has heard stories about a secret hunting reserve in New Hampshire, stocked with elk and 200-pound wild boar. I...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
How do you define wilderness? Why are humans drawn to summits? Will the cold-hardy kiwi save a struggling local economy, or will it destroy a nativ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:29
The myths and legend surrounding AMC's oldest trail crew, the TFC, aka Trail F*cking Crew.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:00
For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains was a source of pride and peace; for his parents it was a source of constant worry. ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 18:44
In Maine, recently, an internationally known annual road race was held . 6338 runners raced. One runner in the group of the first 183 spent a full...
- Added: Aug 14, 2016
- Length: 05:01
Ari Ofsevit is a guy from Boston fueled by an intense, nerdy love for sports. The day after running this year’s Boston Marathon, his face was all o...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 20:12
We're hitting the gym, yet again, on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we return to Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this tw...
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 05:57
We're hitting the gym on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we visit Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this two-part series. H...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 06:29
I am discovering not sports but the power of sports as a social glue, to bring a city together.
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It was supposed to be a leisurely float down the Snake River. But when they lost their guide, a group of tourists got more than they bargained for.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 16:22
- Purchases: 1
Christina Lee should have been having the time of her life. Instead, she was stressed and lonely. Until she decided to run away from the rat race…a...
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 17:24
- Purchases: 2
On this special episode of Wish We Were Here: Tales and Investigations from the Shadows of America's Mountain, we worked with Nathan Ward at Grit a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Apr 18, 2016
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 1