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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Purple Reign
Gwen Macsai comes clean with a very colorful secret... about her dad.
- 2012
- 14:59
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
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
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
Re:sound #241 The Smash the Binary Show
This hour, stories that grab hold of our expectations and smash the binary.
Ear Hustle, Episode 1: Cellies
"We started with Cellies because we felt that people probably can’t relate to prison but they can definitely relate to a roommate, especially a roommate from hell." Earlonne Woods, co-host of Ear Hustle .
- 2017
- 23:39
- Earlonne Woods
- Antwan Williams
- Nigel Poor
Bartolo's Journey
Bartolo crossed the U.S. border alone… when he was just 16 years old.
- 2017
- 16:44
- Erika Beras
S-Town Hall
On April 11, 2017, Third Coast held a public discussion in Chicago to discuss S-Town , the most-buzzed about podcast of the year, from Serial Productions and This American Life .
- 2017
- 01:03:01
- Dennis Funk
- Johanna Zorn
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
Nancy Episode 1: Hello, hello
Nancy is the inspiration of bi-coastal friends who met at the Transom Story workshop, and knew they wanted to make an LGBTQ podcast together.
The Deacons
Bogalusa, Louisiana is home to a forgotten chapter of civil-rights history that is still very much alive.
- 2017
- 32:11
- Eric Eddings
- Pat Walters
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
Private Black Motherhood and Public White Protest
"What does it mean to be a woman? This is a trick question."
- 2017
- 12:52
- Stacia Brown
Choose Responsibly
Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it?
- 2017
- 01:10
- Dennis Funk
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
Envision Yourself Being a Free Man
Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons.
- 2016
- 10:52
- Sylvia Ryerson
Not By Accident - Episode One
For five years, Sophie Harper recorded nearly every phone call, chat with friends, even her visit to the fertility clinic.
- 2016
- 15:18
- Sophie Harper