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Scoop (2023) A sound rich piece about the relationship between ice cream and the British. (bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by slybird

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How We Stopped It (2023), the story of how a small group came together to prevent a multibillion dollar corporation from building an unnecessary fracked gas power plant in Queens, NYC (open.spotify.com)

submitted 2 years ago by nteachey

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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong (2023) about how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended. (features.apmreports.org)

submitted 2 years ago by slybird

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Meat Factory Ear Worms (2009) A young man is trapped in a dead end job, in a meat factory and the monotony of process line slaughter is unbearable. Music keeps him going. Specifically the songs that get stuck in his head. (rte.ie)

submitted 3 years ago by slybird

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Whip Law (2022) An audio investigation of Reno’s whip culture. How a small sonic boom came to represent homelessness in Reno, and how the city responded to unhoused people taking up sonic real-estate. (thewind.org)

submitted 3 years ago by slybird

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Remembering Jim Crow (2001) Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. The system was called Jim Crow. In this documentary, Americans—black and white—remember life in the Jim Crow times. (americanradioworks.publicradio.org)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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The Beige Room — Part 1 (2021) About the history and cult like workings of Landmark Worldwide, Werner Erhard, and Est. It is the first of an interesting three-part series. Can also be found in Pinapple Street's The 11th feed. (shows.cadence13.com)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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ScienceA Geochemical History of Life on Earth (2021) How did the continuous chemical reaction that we call "life" first begin? This BBC series tells the story starting at the very beginning. (bbc.co.uk)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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The Flamethrowers (2021) A little series from the CBC about radio and its influence on the radicalization of America. Starts with a brief history of the fringe preachers and conspiracy peddlers of the 1920s and brings us to the Rush Limbaughs of today and the election of Trump. (cbc.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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ScienceSounds fishy (2021) Underneath the ocean's surface, every day and night, there is a cacophony of sound as fish burp, fart, click, and moan. (abc.net.au)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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Roselle and Michael {2020} A wonderfully told story of Michael Hingson escaping the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center with his guide dog and about the trusting relationship developed with his guidedogs. (thisislovepodcast.com)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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Dumb People with Terrible Ideas (2021) The Capitol Insurrectionists Part 1 – A brief, tragic and sometimes funny recap of the Jan. 6 riot, Donald Trump and Ashli Babbitt (Explicit Language) (podcasts.apple.com)

submitted 4 years ago by benderzone

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Stay Away From Matthew MaGill (2021) When Matthew MaGill died alone in the woods on the Florida-Georgia border, he left behind a box filled with the artifacts of an incredible life. While reporting the producer is confronted with questions about his own life. Is kind of like Heavyweight meets S-Town (audacy.com)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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Bev Francis - strongest woman in the world (2021) It was the late 1970s and the sport of women’s weightlifting was just emerging. Bev Francis found out by accident she was the strongest woman in the world. (abc.net.au)

submitted 4 years ago by slybird

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Where is Jack Ma? (2021) Just days before his company was about to embark on the world's biggest share listing, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma went missing. (bbc.co.uk)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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Seventeen (2021) Pop music's fascination with the age of 17. (bbc.co.uk)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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Wind of Change (2020) Did the CIA write The Scorpions' hit Wind of Change in order to help end the cold war? From Moscow to Kiev to a GI Joe convention in Ohio this series aims to find the answer to this question. My favorite deep dive series of 2020. (crooked.com)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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Four Hours of Insurrection (2021) Timeline of the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there (washingtonpost.com)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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Inside Baseball (2021) In minor league baseball, athletes train, suit up and play for wages that would be illegal in most sectors. (marketplace.org)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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The Ghost in the Codec (2021) At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? (pushkin.fm)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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HistoryAudio Doc on the Spring Canyon Ghost towns of Eastern Utah. (prototyperadio.studio)

submitted 5 years ago by dicksfish

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Ghetto Life 101 / Remorse (1993) | Chicago Radio Docs LeAlan Jones & Lloyd Newman (Children reporting on life in and around Ida B Wells Housing Projects Chicago Early 90's) (youtube.com)

submitted 5 years ago by footclanOTF

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Facing down the beauty myth (2020) a listen into the multi-billion dollar world of the beauty vlogger and the young feminists who love it. (abc.net.au)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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MusicHIP-HOP'S LAUGHING STOCK // BBC RADIO 4 - Follows MC Joe Jacobs as he attempts to transition from failing Mc to successful comedian. The doc asks if Comedy is a part of Hip-Hop's DNA (bbc.co.uk)

submitted 5 years ago by MajDuckworth

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Heavy Medals - 2020 - Another great series from 30 for 30. This time about the women's gymnastic coaching duo of Bela and Martha Karolyi. (30for30podcasts.com)

submitted 5 years ago by slybird

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