Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Lord God Bird
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was thought to be extinct until 2004, when it was rediscovered near the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas.
- 2017
- 11:18
- Elizabeth Meister
- Dan Collison
Basket of Deportables
On January 27, 2017, Donald Trump's executive order closed U.S. borders to citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations. Some of the people locked out were already on their way... mid-flight.
- 2017
- 09:48
- Zoe Chace
Ruffian
Some animals might run faster, but none run more beautifully.
- 2011
- 09:48
- Gwen Macsai
- Katie Mingle
Choose Responsibly
Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it?
- 2017
- 01:10
- Dennis Funk
Haunted by ISIS
On The New York Times ' podcast The Daily , host Michael Barbaro dives into one critical story of the day with a Times’ reporter who knows it best.
- 2017
- 19:36
- Andy Mills
- Rukmini Callimachi
Where's Richard?
On February 15, 2014 Richard Simmons didn’t show up to teach the exercise class he had led for 40 years - and he hasn't been seen in public since.
- 2017
- 28:04
- Henry Molofsky
- Dan Taberski
In The Event Of An Emergency, Put Your Sister In An Upright Position
Every year on the day after Christmas, children of divorced parents are shuttled across the United States, from one parent to the other.
- 2001
- 29:08
- Susan Burton
Hana's Suitcase
When the Children's Holocaust Education Center in Tokyo acquired Hana Brady's suitcase, all they knew was that Hana was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and died at Auschwitz at age 13.
- 2001
- 29:08
- Karen Levine
Ghetto Life 101
In 1993, LeAlan Jones (age 13) and Lloyd Newman (age 14) collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create an audio diary of life on Chicago's South Side.
- 1993
- 30:20
- David Isay
The View From Room 205
This is a story about some little kids and a big idea.
- 2017
- 57:00
- Linda Lutton
This Senator Saved My Love Life
You have to give it to some elected representatives — they really will respond to the letters you send.
- 2014
- 24:39
- Anna Sale
No Bad News
Three decades ago, American hypnotist Larry Garrett committed himself to abstaining from the news.
- 2017
- 58:04
- Sarah Geis
- Nick van der Kolk
The Season Episode 8: The Worst Part About Our Sport
How do you go from losing to winning?
- 2015
- 26:45
- Ilya Marritz
In The Dark, Episode 1
When 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared in 1989, local Minnesota police seemed determined to crack the case. Instead, it took them 27 years.
- 2016
- 32:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Samara Freemark
- Natalie Jablonski
After the Verdict
On June 16, 2017, one headline dominated news across the United States: a Minnesota jury had found officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty in the shooting death of Philando Castile.
- 2017
- 27:18
- Tracy Mumford
- Riham Feshir
Purple Reign
Gwen Macsai comes clean with a very colorful secret... about her dad.
- 2012
- 14:59
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
The Different A
Is there something mystical about tuning?
- 2016
- 03:00
- Zach Nichols
Dreamers
Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.
- 2012
- 12:18
- Joe Frank
The Audio Guide to Grieving
Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.
- 2018
- 15:08
- Melanie Kruvelis
Purple Rain
“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.
- 2019
- 11:55
- Wederik De Backer
It Started With Oscar Grant
A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.
- 2019
- 24:15
- Sandhya Dirks
Being Siri
A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.
- 2017
- 07:16
- Erin Anderson
Making Obama: Wait Your Turn
How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?
- 2018
- 56:15
- Colin McNulty
Episode 1 - A Perfect Murder
The abundance and popularity of true-crime podcasts meant the time had come (and gone, and come again) for a really hard look in the mirror. The Onion and Onion Public Radio bravely rose to the challenge!
- 2018
- 13:40
- Katy Yeiser
- Fran Hoepfner
- Ryan Natoli
- David Sidorov
Man Choubam (I am good)
Sharon calls herself a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Silver Award.
- 2018
- 39:57
- Sharon Mashihi