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New Hampshire has sent its most troubled kids to the same juvenile detention center for more than a century. It's a place that was supposed to nurt...
- Added: Jul 23, 2024
- Length: 49:29
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 2
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...
- Added: Jul 30, 2023
- Length: 58:49
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a loca...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 33:34
Uncovering hidden diversities in a small community.
This episode of 12 Knots explores three stories that look at hidden diversities in our small i...
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 42:04
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 01:44
The nation of Finland is building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. We hear excer...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Carl Conradi, of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, considers the notion of 'bearing witness' as it relates to the Initiative's efforts ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 10:05
Why are they here?. Many Latin Americans came to the US because dangerous or deadly conditions-which the American government helped create. In pa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 2
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Aug 14, 2011
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 1
Is Maine immune to a deadly bat disease?
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 2
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Revised edition. A report shows that the last 50 years of tax cuts benefited the very rich but left the middle class without improvement.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
A woman decides to kick her drug addiction.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 28, 2007
- Length: 55:00
A docu-play about two couples and their experience with domestic violence.
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Oct 10, 2006
- Length: 46:53
- Purchases: 1
A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?
Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2005
- Length: 59:26
- Purchases: 2
Former dutch veterans of the colonial conflict in Indonesia talk of their guilty past and of atonement.
- Added: Aug 10, 2004
- Length: 29:02
Errol Morris on recent execution of David Ray Harris
- Added: Jul 13, 2004
- Length: 20:17
Sick kids behind bars and what happens when they get there: a Colorado youth prison sheds light on a national problem.
- Added: Nov 24, 2003
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 5