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The arrest of a Fifth Avenue architect as the alleged serial murderer of several women brings up the question of whether anyone over that long peri...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 08:36
- Purchases: 1
An episode that introduces a character while also saying goodbye to them.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 1
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 05:14
Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 28:06
- Purchases: 1
In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...
Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 27:27
- Purchases: 2
Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:13
Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
The murders of four children at the hands of caretakers were adjudicated by Maine's court system recently. As the last days of a child whose grandf...
- Added: Apr 06, 2019
- Length: 07:17
EVEN WITH THE RISE OF ONLINE DATING WEBSITES AND WAYS TO CONNECT, THERE IS STILL A LARGE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT THEY HAVE YET TO HELP. FROM GLEN BURNIE,...
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 05:16
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:01
Human Growth and Development textbooks may be the ‘go to’ reference to explain ‘what the hell is going on’ as the new Republican opponent appar...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 04:52
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
For Bryce Jacobson and DaeDae Williams, reflection comes naturally. But both have a complicated relationship with their quiet time. On today's show...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:40
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 5
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
A cold-water, slap on the face, static-electric jolt reminder of just how powerfully spaces can affect the way we think and act.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 3
From patrolling the streets of Sunset Boulevard to infiltrating prostitution rings, this female police officer has seen it all. Patty Corso’s persp...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 07:41
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
When Charlie died, his son Edward made a discovery. A true story.
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 03:59
