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Incident at Vichy/The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A dark tale from Arthur Miller, plus a docudrama about the brilliant, controversial physicist

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 8
The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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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
SHE'S A MANEATER
From: melodically challenged
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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Behind the Sheet
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of bravery in the face of inhuman treatment.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, WPCA-LP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
After Surviving An Internment Camp, She Made Minnesota Home
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Sally Sudo, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
Like many Japanese-Americans of her generation, Sally Sudo was forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. After her brother studied ...

Bought by WFHB and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
Ghosts of the Chinese Exclusion Act
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Harry Chin, subject of the play "The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin", Credit: Sheila Chin Morris
President Trump’s efforts to halt immigration from specific countries isn’t new. In the 19th century, the United States prohibited working-class Ch...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
#109 - Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown
From: HowSound
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NPR's Deb Amos and Noah Adams give the backstory on the scariest radio story you'll ever hear.

Bought by WLPR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 32:14
  • Purchases: 2
A visit to San Quentin Museum
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lt. Robinson points out the warden who died at his desk, Credit: Chris Hambrick
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:27
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair (30 Min Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather., Credit: Teri Havens
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 2
Into Eternity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Into Eternity director Michael Madsen
The nation of Finland is building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. We hear excer...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 6
HN- Wannsee Conference
From: Conor Bentley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this installment, the topic is the notorious Wannsee Conference.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
Pro-Slavery Constitution
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 3