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On this week’s special-themed episode of Tonic: The Funky Groove Show, we’re exploring the world of crime solving. From private investigators to sp...

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:30
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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The Legendary Lynette Shaw, abducted at 7 years of age, became the Nation's youngest bounty hunter then, our Nation's Greatest Bounty Hunter, Turne...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2022
  • Length: 26:42
Caption: WWLOTFGM "Mole Men" Episode 2, Credit: graphic art by Elvis Wilson
Staring: Webb Wilder, George Lindsey ("Goober" The Andy Griffith Show), Felix Cavaliere (60s Rock group The Rascals & RnR Hall of Famer), Jonell Mo...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 57:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: WWLOTFGM "Mole Men" Episode 1, Credit: graphic art by Elvis Wilson
Staring: Webb Wilder, George Lindsey ("Goober" The Andy Griffith Show), Kathy Mattea (Country multi Grammy winner), James Griffin (70s Pop group Br...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A book celebrating 50 years of Feluda, Credit: Sandip Roy
The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
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Edward Norton is the director and lead actor of this entertaining detective mystery set in 1950s Brooklyn, a story that features political corrupti...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
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This stylish 1981 cult favorite from Jean-Jacques Beineix tells of a young man’s obsession with an opera singer, and his accidental involvement in ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:02
Caption: Jamie Merifield, left, collects evidence on the job in Montana.
Allison Simko talked with her cousin, Jamie Merifield, a cop and hostage negotiator in Missoula, Montana, for 23 years. She never forgot a woman sh...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WOUB


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 3
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 3!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:30
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 1!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:41
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A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 1!

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:03
Caption: The Washington Times., August 21, 1912.
An exploration of "forensic optography" - the theory advanced by some 19th and early 20th c. detectives that you could obtain an image of a murdere...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 14:21
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When Ellen Hart began writing detective novels, she didn't want to hide her identity. So she created Jane Lawless, a lesbian protagonist, as the st...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Long Lavender Look by John D. MacDonald.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 45:08
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:18
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Sgt. David Mascarenas is the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s been diving his whole life, and prides himself on never re...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 21:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Delaney Mazen echoes the tongue-in-cheek and audacious tone of the 1940’s Radio Mystery. To hear actual old time radio, listen to The Inner Sanctum...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:50
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In March 1964, a 35-year-old African American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville, Florida. Fou...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2014
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
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James Greer talks about Guided by Voices, his new band Detective and doing Broadway with Steven Soderbergh.

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 47:00
Caption: Avraamov conducting the Symphony of Sirens in Moscow. November 7, 1923., Credit: Andrey Smirnov
In November of 1923, a Soviet composer named Arseny Avraamov stepped onto a Moscow rooftop clutching two oversized flags. His plan: to conduct an ...

Bought by KUER, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 7
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Decoder Ring Theatre's acclaimed full-cast adventure series! Two-fisted pulp justice awaits in this and every stand-alone adventure.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 25:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Decoder Ring Theatre's acclaimed full-cast adventure series! Two-fisted pulp justice awaits in this and every stand-alone adventure.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 25:39
  • Purchases: 1