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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
Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...
- Added: Aug 20, 2023
- Length: 58:38
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...
- Added: Mar 14, 2022
- Length: 04:21
Destiny - Neal Bennington founded Broadway Sings for Pride, in response to tragic suicides within the LGBTQ+ community. The live concert series has...
- Added: Dec 16, 2021
- Length: 03:18
After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 36:54
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 27:48
One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 27:33
- Purchases: 1
The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bob...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 42:01
When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:29
In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 28:57
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:33
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I wa...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 39:19
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:19
In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 25:11
- Purchases: 1
When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:02
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:23
There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:54
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 59:17
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
