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Ten thousand spectators gathered by the side of the Thames on 19th October, 2003 to watch street magician/illusionist David Blaine come back down t...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 08:38
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The Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20th October, 1973, marking the start of a two-week festival of events in celebration of...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 09:05
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For our season finale, Devin and Lauren tell the story of the Fox sisters, who rose to fame as early practitioners of modern spiritualism in the 19...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, bles...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Door to Suspense #19 featuring Eve Arden in: Our Miss Brooks 10/24/48 CBS, Suspense “The Well-Dressed Corpse” 1/18/51 CBS.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
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Door to Suspense #17 featuring Shirley Mitchell in: Great Gildersleeve 5/26/46 NBC, Suspense “Blind Date” 11/18/54 CBS.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
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Door to Suspense #16 featuring J. Carrol Naish in: Life With Luigi 3/25/52 CBS, Suspense “Treasure Chest of Don Jose” 2/4/52 CBS.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
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An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is how quiet it is, for the most part. Sometimes you’ll hear a pinyon log sort of bonk against a bo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Door to Suspense #14 featuring Henry Morgan in: Henry Morgan Show 6/4/47 ABC, Suspense “Dream Song” 11/6/47 CBS.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
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Door to Suspense #13 featuring Jim and Marian Jordan in: Fibber McGee and Molly 1/9/46 NBC, Suspense “Backseat Driver” 2/22/51 CBS.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
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Door to Suspense #12 featuring Bob Hope in: Bob Hope Show 3/21/50 NBC, Suspense “Death Has a Shadow” 5/5/49 CBS.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:00
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Stop laughing Americans, it's not what you think. Starting with the industrial revolution in the UK, people were employed as human alarm clocks, wa...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio show on KZCT 89.5 FM Vallejo, CA (Ozcatradio.com) "On The Side" with Chef Mark, featuring guest Doug the Jitterbug. Chef Mark gets the turnta...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:55:03
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It's the Civil War and you're in the medical tent. It's dark and the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
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An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 21:47
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We fell down a Pinterest hole and found a whole bunch of women who we'd NEVER heard about in history classes. Ching Shih, an infamous Chinese pirat...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 20:09
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We talk with the great cartoonist Jules Feiffer about the third graphic novel in his noir trilogy about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 50...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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I'm tired of California wildfires. I want rain to make it green again. The climate is changing though and we have a politicians who see that, and s...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:57:12
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There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...

Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 3
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A little history, a lot of fun. Visit Atomic Boys - a Seattle shop specializing in nostalgic candy.

Bought by WMMT and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
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FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL co-founder Nick Prueher talks cultural anthropology, local angles, and topless darts.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 20:28
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Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Sarah Vowell signing books after a lecture at Lamar Univ. in Beaumont, Texas
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
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Join us for episode sixty-eight, an enlightening conversation with Paul Carrick Ph.D., teacher of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He’s also a bio...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:02