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This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:49
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Two haunting sounds that are powerful, and have an unusual quality when heard together.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:06
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LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall is an autobiographical dark comedy, written and performed by "This American Life" co...

Bought by KHEN-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Jenny Lynn heard strange sounds when she first spent the night at Building 98. She thought it was the wind until she told a friend and discovered t...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Billy finally saved enough money to move his family from a trailer to a house in West Texas. He thought he left his problems behind… until some of ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
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There are plenty of things we don’t share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you’re both in the business of death.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 4
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IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
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A radio drama adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 36:05
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Instead of fighting the chill, why don’t we revel in it? Carl Byron hosts a musical journey that begins in the far and ancient north, with hauntin...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
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Strangers on a train, partners in crime - the two great art forms of the twentieth century meet. As film composers incorporated new sounds into th...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: Dan Lawton
Dan Lawton talks of his first assignment as a crime reporter in the 7th Ward of New Orleans.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:27
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"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" starring Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy and Jim O'Rear. An Audio Drama adaptation of the classic...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Poison Squad dining room in the basement of the Bureau of Chemistry, Credit: FDA
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...

Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 8
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Marlene Azoulai reads her poem "Memories."

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Danny Klecko provides a vivid glimpse into the world of baking with a look at the camaraderie amongst bakers preparing a new batch of pastries...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
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Mother Nature and God respond to Paul Ryan's comment that "our rights come from nature and God, not government."

  • Added: Sep 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:11
Caption: America's Army
Interactive, realistic, pro-war video games have become part of American culture. But protestors and artists are finding ways to turn the virtual ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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A program containing 3 short stories of the old west by Frank Bird Linderman in which the rough dry humor of the cowpuncher is evident.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:11
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The pirate, Captain Kidd, was reputed to have buried treasure all up and down the Atlantic Coast and in the Bahamas. Much more gold has been spent ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 15:23
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Tibet Connection executive pro­ducer Rebecca Novick reports on the Tibetans who have self-??immolated in Tibet since February 2009.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:27
Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 19:53
Caption: Free Press, Credit: Cover design by Eric Fuentecilla
In his new book, former federal prosecutor Ken Ballen reveals the personal and emotional secrets of Islamic terrorists.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
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True GHOST stories told by the Southerners who lived them. From a haunted night in a hotel, to a stage ghost calling people by name, to a ghostly c...

Bought by WMPG and KUT


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2