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BackStory producer Eric Mennel and literature professor Benjamin Reiss brings us the story of Jane Rider, a sleepwalking servant girl whose case in...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 11:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gordon Howard in conversation with a Blue Jay, Credit: Gerald Zahavi
A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 26:43
  • Purchases: 1
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There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 1
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In this one-hour special, IEEE Spectrum Magazine's Eliza Strickland takes listeners through her personal journey explaining what genome-sequencing ...

Bought by KQED, WLRN, 90.5 WSNC, Capital Public Radio, WRPI and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
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Prerna Gupta, a vocalist and the Chief Product Officer of Smule, a startup that creates digital tools for singers like Songify and AutoRap, talks a...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:59

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 12:52
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Two stories of silence. A young woman's hearing gradually goes away, so she and her family weigh their options. A radio producer with chronic tinni...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KOSU, Public Radio Remix, Aspen Public Radio, and WFPL News


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Daily routines can become monotonous, but when dealing with mental illness these tasks can feel insurmountable. Student producer Alanna Duncan take...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
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Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:05
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It’s a rare sensitivity to normal, everyday sounds, like typing, or footsteps, or even breathing. And it’s being increasingly diagnosed. Researcher...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:32
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Cancer treatments can leave a patient in intense pain, or cause nausea, fatigue, and loss of appetite. For people with low incomes or without healt...

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious visits with Dr. Ken Alibeck, author of "Bio-Hazard: The Chilling Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World ...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 57:58
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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A Vet describes a euthanasia and we wonder how we should consider human euthanasia.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Following one day in the life of Maine's Black Bear Monitoring Team, which braves bear dens in order to count the number of new-born cubs.

Bought by KUOW, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sex poster at Natural History Museum, Credit: Andy Duckworth
WARNING: contains frank details about animal sex... please listen and approve before broadcasting. We reveal nature's most bizarre and intimate se...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 39:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Jill Bolte Taylor: Brain Scientist, Stroke Survivor

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adam Warner and Meghan Baker, Credit: Meghan Baker
When people ask Adam Warner what he does for a living, he tells them he's living out his wife's life goals.

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 35:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Do you take your dog for daily walks? Guido has the perfect invention for you: Basil's Boulevard Boom Boom Burn Stick...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Experience the largest bird migrations in the world

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A piece about preserving prairie.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 10:39
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John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 18:33
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Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.

Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and WFPL News


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
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Amy has battled bipolar disorder all her life. She’s tried 25 different medications, but nothing has been able to stabilize her mood.

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Learning Barge, Credit: Phoebe Crisman, UVa
The world’s first floating wetlands classroom comes to the aid of one of the country's most polluted waterways.

Bought by WFIU and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Soundprint_09-12 uploaded 3/20/09: Betwitched/Short Circuit

Bought by WRVO and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2