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Professional criminal...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:25:04
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Ray Bradbury's best work... the movie's opening credits were done with audio voiceover while antennas (and no words) grace the opening screen...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:12:23
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In this episode For the Record Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:18
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A walking tour of Chicago's historical disasters

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
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What’s it like to hear voices? Are they hallucinations or a normal human experience?

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 52:22
Caption: Agnes Sampson and witches with devi, Credit: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:33
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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
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
Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives
Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Villisca Axe Murder House
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.

Bought by KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Marfa Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 10
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Sounds and Emotions of 9/11

Bought by 'The Sea', KMXT, KISU, WAMU, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 11
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This six minute documentary audio collage examines the mental environment of dumpster divers and scroungers.

Bought by KRZA and PRX Administrator


  • Added: May 10, 2006
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The voices from Death Row Inmates

Bought by XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 3