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Life of the Law #128 UGANDA: Pt 3 - Escape
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Beatrice Oswee with her daughter in Gulu, Uganda.
"If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 36:25
Episode 2: Something Large and Wild
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 23:07
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 85: The Manual
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of St. Cloud Soup: A Potluck, Micro-grant, Fragrant Community Event
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this tasty Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down at the dinner table with St. Cloud Soup. ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2018
  • Length: 30:44
Assignment: Memphis
From: Drew Darling
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The plot that killed the dream. The Who, What, Where, How and Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.

Bought by WLPR and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Snap 909: Counted: An Oakland Story, 3/1/2018
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Snap #908 "Counted: An Oakland Story" -- On the next all-NEW Snap Judgment, we're going do something a little different. We took a look at our own ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
Episode 81: Unexpected Guests
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Three mysteries we can’t stop thinking about.

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 33:48
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 72: Bears, Birds, and Bones
From: Criminal
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As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of the dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds Natio...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 71: A Bump in the Night
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Amber Dawn was 20 when she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Enumclaw, Washington. On her very first night, she began to notice strange sounds....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 17:55
  • Purchases: 1
Treed by a Jaguar
From: Outside Magazine
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The story of two explorers chased down—well, technically up—by a jaguar.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 28:08
Episode 66: Bully
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Episode 65: The Kingfish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Part 2: Christian China
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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We travel to China and find ourselves dancing in between the communist government and religion, outsiders and Christianity, parents and the next ge...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:53
Part 1: The road back to Jerusalem
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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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
Introducing Christian China and the end of times
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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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
Episode 63: Rochester, 1991
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
  • Purchases: 1
01. Love Train - Morgan and Nathan
From: Kismet Podcast
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One of the things that people who live in New York know is that “you don’t talk to people on the subway”. I think this is a common feeling on train...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 11:33
Episode 62: Wildin
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. When he arrived, he turned himself in to border patr...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 22:47
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 60: Finding Sarah and Philip
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 1
Madawaskan Rebellion
From: WMPG PD
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This one-hour documentary tells, with first-hand accounts, the dramatic story of the strike at Fraser Paper Company in Madawaska, Maine in 1971. In...

Bought by KRVS


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 59: In Plain Sight
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Episode 54: Melinda and Clarence
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story. Melinda...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 31:45
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 53: Melinda and Judy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 25:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Mosquito Crusader
From: Jake Smith
Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine
Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
Ninety Three Men
From: Scott Christy
Caption: Research Vessel Atlantis
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

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