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Avant interviews manhole artist, Bobbi Mastrangelo, who has a decades-long career celebrating the humble manhole cover, advocating for clean water,...
- Added: Sep 12, 2021
- Length: 19:46
The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 37:07
The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 32:13
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 36:45
A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...
- Added: Aug 22, 2020
- Length: 48:31
What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.
- Added: Dec 28, 2019
- Length: 10:25
In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.
- Added: Dec 28, 2019
- Length: 33:04
John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 28:12
Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 36:44
- Added: May 08, 2018
- Length: 09:27
Amber Dawn was 20 when she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Enumclaw, Washington. On her very first night, she began to notice strange sounds....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 17:55
- Purchases: 1
This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:02
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 28:49
- Purchases: 2
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 2
Working as a reporter for a TV station in New Hampshire, Kevin Flynn was covering the capture and arrest of a female serial killer named Sheila LaB...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 15:47
- Purchases: 1
Three stories about inventors who have done some pretty amazing things before even graduating from high school. From cats to semiconductors, these ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 13:47
- Purchases: 2
This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.
Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 5
On this week's episode, stories about looking for answers in the wrong places, mercury in the water, and...bigfoot.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 2
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 13:35
- Purchases: 1
Reporter Jake Ryan follows the rabbit hole to uncover the truth behind a sandwich and a controversy that's been around since the Vietnam War.
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 2
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 3
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 16:56
- Purchases: 2
