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How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 05:40
This is the fifth and concluding episode of The Writ Writer by Michael Murphy based on the true story of black attorney Scipio Africanus Jones. Onc...
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Nickson Parmisa tells of hairy, smelly, human-like beasts, which used to roam the Savannah, eating people but not their cattle. Is this just a fabl...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 02:57
Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old "Iliad" has no rival.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Mark Munger joins Heidi Holtan on Real Good Words to talk about his new mystery novel titled "Laman's River."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 22:32
- Purchases: 1
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Castle in Brittany;
Grampa Ed’s Twisted Fairy Tales: The Princess and the Pea
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 28:35
A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 29:55
This touching dramatised reconstruction, is based on the extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian Jews living in Stalin’s Russia.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 14:53
From: KALW
San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier has lived quite an eventful life. But arguably the most remarkable event happened during her time spent as a ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 07:43
Andrew is a filmmaker whose credits include Happiness Is and Before the Music Dies. Andrew is working on a new film, The Teller and the Truth, abou...
- Added: Mar 03, 2011
- Length: 27:22
The heart-wrenching true tale of a South Pacific island paradise that commits ecological suicide.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 02, 2011
- Length: 23:02
- Purchases: 1
A ghostly tour of Washington, D.C.'s second-most haunted house, where many a thing may -- or may not -- go bump in the night...
Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
In part two of our visit with Patrick Marek on the Ghost of Heffron Hall we learn of haunted happenings at the location itself. We also get to hear...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 24:34
Special Guest Patrick Marek stops by KQAL to discuss the legendary ghost of Heffron Hall at St. Mary's University in Winona MN. This haunt has been...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 21:30
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
This is the true story of the only Canadian federal politician in history to be assassinated, the last public execution in Canada, and a mystery th...
Bought by KUT, Public Radio Remix, and WRPI
- Added: May 02, 2010
- Length: 53:42
- Purchases: 3
Historian and blogger Pam Epstein why 19th century Americans turned to the personals.
- Added: Feb 03, 2010
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 2
It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 03:50
Once a year on Halloween, ghosts and ghouls get their day of recognition. But for one group of Central New Yorkers, the paranormal...is normal.
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 2
A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Public Radio Remix, KUT, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 19, 2009
- Length: 10:36
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 4
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.
Bought by KFAI, Public Radio Remix, KUT, WILL, KUOW and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2009
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 6
