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The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of Augus...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 39:50
Caption: FBI Agent, Credit: Camp DeWolfe
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:30
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Way in, very much so. Positive energy surrounds our beginnings with new releases, first up with A & M Octet (that’s bari for baritone sax and bone ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KECG, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 10
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“THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America” tells the story of one of the largest human trafficking schemes in...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 50:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode Nineteen – I’ll give the girls a bag for the powder room. D’laska goes to Juan’s Caribbean Club pretending he’s a drug dealer and befriend...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 17:42
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What happened to Army Private Gerry Irwin on a Utah two-lane? There was no plane crash, no passengers, nothing by Pvt. Irwin unconscious in the Uta...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"Zombies of the Stratosphere" radio show—your mix tape of retro sci-fi, guitar gods, fusion jazz, surf, and prog rock.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:19:07
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear from Lyn Ford, an old folktale about a boy in search of the strongest thing in the world. What will h...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Lola on Fire
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of Westlake Soul and Halcyon.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
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Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes b...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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In this episode, Issy meets Blake, and Cate & Drew find that the town of Harridge wants nothing to do with them.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 17:48
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In this episode, Issy, Drew, and Issy discover that their new Aunt Sandra knows a lot more than she's saying.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 15:32
Caption: Combat Fishing by Terry Hodges
Award-winning author Terry Hodges, inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame, was a game warden for over 30 years. Combat Fishing is a true...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 18:34
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Part mystery and part historical fiction, but the best part?: It’s set in the New York Public Library.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 11:12
Caption: View from the fishing camp tucked between wheat terraces at the foothills of the Himilayan mountains with Nepal across the river. — in Champawat ., Credit: Anietra Hamper
This episode is the first part of a three-part series about Anietra’s harrowing escape from India.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 20:11
Caption: Michael Werwie
This week on On Story we’ll hear from screenwriter Andrew Lanham and celebrated character actor Tim Blake Nelson on their new film JUST MERCY and l...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Square logo for documentary, Credit: IJ Wilson
A peek behind the curtain of a classic horror soundtrack

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 38:30
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
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What monsters haunt your nightmares? This week on Wind & Rhythm, we look at scary music about even scarier monsters. Join us… if you dare… here, ...

Bought by 'The Sea', WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, and KMFA


  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
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On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in Atlanta called Little Five Points. The home be...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 24:56
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Bob Kustra interviews Ben Macintyre about his book "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:10