• 2005
  • 22:30
  • Canada

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Weighing the Balance

By Kellie Hudson, Dick Miller & Mike Bryan

Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police? (more)

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  • 2010
  • 22:58
  • USA

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Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair

By Joe Richman & Samara Freemark

On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman. (more)

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  • 2002
  • 49:54
  • USA

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Corrections, Inc.

By John Biewen

The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America. (more)

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  • 2001
  • 66:16
  • USA

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Digging In: Investigative Documentary Radio

By Stephen Smith & Michael Montgomery

Radio is an excellent medium for investigative reporting, so why do we hear so little of it on the air? (more)

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  • 2005
  • 26:36
  • USA

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Chicago Hustles

By Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler

Meet Floyd (not his real name), a self-described "cigarette hustler" and part of Chicago's thriving underground economy, where goods and services -- legal and illegal -- are sold under the radar. (more)

Cash
  • 2006
  • 21:35
  • USA

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Goat on a Cow

By Laura Starecheski, Jad Abumrad & Ellen Horne

Laura Starecheski finds herself figuratively falling down a rabbit hole (microphone and all) as she embarks on a journey that begins with the story of a goat, a cow, and a box of old letters. (more)

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  • 2005
  • 59:00
  • USA

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Re:sound #24: The Talent Show

By Various producers

This hour: the strange world of competitive model horse collecting and an investigation of an old classmate’s death. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:55
  • USA

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Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)

By Joanna Stein & Nicole Beemsterboer

Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music. (more)

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  • 2002
  • 15:20
  • USA

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Hollister

By Helen Borten

Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake. (more)

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  • 2011
  • 6:35
  • USA

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The Five Percent Rule

By Sally Herships

Soldiers smoke more than civilians. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:58
  • Netherlands

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Chain of Missing Links - 25

By Marnie Chesterton & Henry Hocking

The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery.... (more)

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  • 2010
  • 58:30
  • USA

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Re:sound #128: The Willie McGee Show

By Various

This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee. (more)

Willie
  • 2010
  • 0:06
  • USA, UK, The Netherlands

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2010 TC/RHDF Competition Winners

By 2010 Winners

Announcing the winners of this year's Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:15
  • USA

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I Didn't Know That - 10

By Jenny Asarnow & Emily Eagle

On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know. (more)

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  • 2002
  • 20:05
  • USA

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New Orleans' Hurricane Risk

By Daniel Zwerdling

In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America’s gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane. (more)

Hurricane
  • 2006
  • 24:45
  • USA

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My Lobotomy

By David Isay & Piya Kochar

My Lobotomy explores one of medical history’s most controversial chapters -- when transorbital lobotomies were widely condoned -- through one man’s personal journey. (more)

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  • 2001
  • 21:00
  • USA

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Face of Mercy, Face of Hate

By Michael Montgomery & Stephen Smith

Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment. (more)

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