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A mass incident of abuse by men in a religious community causes the women in that community to gather and talk, so they can decide what to do about...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:27
A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:23
Brendan Fraser plays a morbidly obese teacher who is facing imminent death while trying to reconcile with his angry teenage daughter.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:21
Fritz Lang’s 1931 crime picture remains one of the greatest depictions of social rot ever put on film.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:32
Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season -- a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 33:31
- Purchases: 1
The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons....
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A quest to find the difference between a hobo, a tramp and a bum. We head to the train yard and ask around. Then, receive some clues on a cassette ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 19:42
It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...
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- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 10:28
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 16:34
- Purchases: 3
Sandip speaks with filmmaker Ronny Sen about his film “Cat Sticks,” a personal and disturbing look at the ‘brown sugar’ heroin explosion at the beg...
- Added: Nov 04, 2019
- Length: 06:00
JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 16, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Here in the desert far from prying eyes, the members of the Solar Lodge awaited the apocalypse and built their own grim Ark of the Covenant.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
A complex and touching episode featuring two stories about teenagers who kept diaries while inside a mental health hospital — with entries ranging ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 32:15
Completed in 1887, Science Hall stands like a gothic red brick fortress, guarding the University of Wisconsin / Madison campus. Over the years, it'...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
On the streets, Danny compares himself to an animal in the wild that is in constant danger. Growing up around gangbangers, it felt natural for him ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:49
Though being in a gang often means violence, it also offers a sense of belonging. Gang loyalty can end tragically when members end up betrayed by t...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 05:34
A lockdown happens when correctional officers decide there is a threat to the safety and security of a prison. That might be a fight, an assault, o...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 1
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
Ebola is Airborne and the Government knows it. But they're telling you it isn't. And they're not closing off air traffic from the affected countr...
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 04:59
