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A new program created for UnFictional by radio storyteller Joe Frank.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
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A story from legendary radio storyteller, Joe Frank

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: A version of P.T. Barnum's Fiji Mermaid. It may actually be his... in true Barnum fashion, the origins are unknown.
In America, you can be whoever you want to be. Literally. In this episode of BackStory, we look at some of the greatest cons, swindles, and counter...

Bought by WFPL News, WRPI, WEZU, Royalton Community Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Mr. Toilet (aka Jack Sim) with Chief Sealth International High School social studies teacher Noah Zeichner, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Jack Sim is better known as “Mr. Toilet.” He has spent the past twelve years getting people to talk about sanitation. Sim has learned a lot about ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
Caption: Shannon Selberg (Cows, Heroine Sheiks)
Shannon Selberg was the downright frightening frontman, vocalist, and part-time bugle player for eleven years for the legendary Minneapolis punk/n...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
Caption: Vicki Leon
Author Vicki Leon takes us for a ride through the ages of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Bobby speaks with Lawrence Goudge, author of “Cover-up: How the Church Silenced Jesus’s True Heirs” which tells the hidden story of the original C...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 34:47
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The American History Guys listen back to their favorite moments from the past year of weekly BackStory episodes. Highlights include excerpts from s...

Bought by KREV-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMMT, and WEZU


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
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Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:51
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
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Will Weaver grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. He's attended St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford. He was a Professor of E...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
In this Real Good Words interview, Heidi Holtan talks with Jim Heynen about his new book "The Fall of Alice K."

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:17
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
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102 years ago, Jack London began writing a book about terrorists. It's a weird book. Too weird for London to wrap even his own head around.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Stephen reveals how his acting career got started amid fires, floods and other disasters on his first trip to Los Angeles.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 51:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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This thing is getting real, folks! As the Orioles approach mid-August just 4.5 back in the AL East and definitively in the hunt for the 2012 playo...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 44:57
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From our show on Homeownership: Film Critic David Edelstein talks about the most efficient foreclosure artist in history - Ghosts.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:35
  • Purchases: 1
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The wildly diverse and compelling continent of Africa is our focus on this program from December 2009. Discussion centers on WiderNet and the eGra...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:37:56
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Steampunk among the steam trains: lifestyle/fashion event celebrates a past vision of the future. Amy Clark brings us a conversation with Richard R...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Caldwell O'Keefe tending bar at his house in Tulsa, Okla., Credit: Abby Wendle
Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston Avenue. In the 1970s, O’Keefe mixed drinks...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
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One-hour modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" using narration, original music, and sound effects.

Bought by WMNF and KUT


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 2