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Origin Story
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson tells the wild story of how he found his birth parents.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Refuge | Episode 4 | Path Dependence
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A polar bear ambles across a grassy plain just outside Kaktovik, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 7
The Refuge | Episode 3 | Do It In a Good Way
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Sarah James on her four-wheeler in Arctic Village, Alaska, Credit: Amy Martin
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 7
The Refuge | Episode 2 | Atauchikun
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Robert Thompson, Kaktovik polar bear guide, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
The Refuge | Episode 1 | Sibling Rivalry
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Vebjørn Aishana Reitan, polar bear guide and certified U.S. Coast Guard captain, on the refuge., Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Cold Comfort | Extra 03 | What Have You Done for Me Lately?
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Join us on a journey into a permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3
Tongue Terror
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
Best Intentions
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Alaskans try to make situations better, only to make them much, much worse...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
The Power of Water
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mistaken Identity
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Episode Two: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: Fur seals by the village of St. Paul, Alaska, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bears!
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
Alaskan "Can Do" Spirit
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Champion dog musher Brent Sass gets sprayed in the face with bear spray and then nearly eaten by a bear and Bill Schnabel tries to raise pigs but c...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
The Alaskan Martian
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Stranded!
From: Robert Prince
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Two stories of being trapped by yourself in the Alaskan wilderness.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Earthquake! Part 2
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Earthquake! Part 1
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Pilot Episode
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Three amazing true stories from Alaska about a heartwarming killer whale encounter, surviving a flash flood, and a Jewish girl from New Jersey movi...

Bought by American Voices, WJCT, KMXT, and KHNS


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 31:31
  • Purchases: 4
Love Syndrome
From: Israel Story
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Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...

Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5