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Episode 123: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 121: Off Leash
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I never did anything wrong. I never had a speeding ticket. I think I just saved all my stuff up for just one thing.” This week, we speak with Toby...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 43:49
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 120: The Tunnel
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 20:27
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 119: He's Still Neutral
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as he can remember, but he isn...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 112: The Mail
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she received something very strange in the mail. She didn’t know who it was from, or why they would have sent i...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 25:31
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 107: The Widow and the Winchester
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 22:25
Episode 106: Linda
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Christian Olsen to do some repairs on her condo. A...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
Can Tiny Homes Solve Utah's Big Housing Problems?
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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On the next More to Say, we’re picking up on a conversation we started last week about affordable housing in Utah. This time it’s all about tiny ho...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 04/12/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week, we'll take you on a road trip through Northern Ireland, 20 years after the peace agreement ended three decades of violence between Prote...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Parenting From Prison, Inside Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Marni and Jim Family, Credit: Marni Corrigan
When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing stru...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Behind the Scenes at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Samuri Armor, Credit: Renee Wilde
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is nestled in a beautiful stretch of public parks that mark the confluence of the Stillwater and Great Miami Rive...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:02
Sherry Wang – Fly
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: Fresh Picked by Open Orchard Productions
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Sherry Wang isn't just another teenager balancing good grades with studying for the SAT's and having fun. Instead, on top of all the expected press...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 04:56
Centerstage Minnesota Feature: Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota Features
Caption: Charmin Michelle, Credit: JuliAnne Jonker
In this feature, Charlie Pulkrabek highlight's Twin Cities based Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle. Short excerpts of Sam Miltich interviewing Charmin...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota: John Gorka Joins Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: John Gorka, Credit: Jos van Vliet
John Gorka's brother Cass had just taught John how to play a few chords when John Gorka began creating his own songs. Hanging around infamous coffe...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Inaugural Whites 100 Challenges Athletes in Remote Alaska
From: Emily Schwing
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38 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, the first ever 100 mile wilderness adventure race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area tested athle...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb Not The Weary Kind With Novel In Spotlight
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb is a professor at Rhode Island College., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb says the seeds of his book were pla...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Crossing Queens Boulevard
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Malika Kalontarova, Credit: Warren Lehrer, photo ©2003
A family of Bukharan Jewish dancers and musicians escape war-torn Tajikistan. They move to an apartment near Queens BLVD, and go from dodging bulle...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Day the Music Died
From: Julie Beth Napolin
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A profile of a vinyl record store owner during his last week in business.

Bought by KSRQ, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 6
Street Music: Folk Songs for the Five Points
From: WFUV
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An online mixing board of the ethnically-diverse sounds of the streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2006
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 1