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Mixtape: Help?
Episode 428
In tape five, three stories: first, a tale of how the cassette tape supercharged the self-help industry. Second, cassettes filled with history make a…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mixtape: Cassetternet
Episode 427
In 1983, Simon Goodwin had a strange thought. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software over the radio? If so, could listeners record it of…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Episode 426
As the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in their North Vietnamese enemy. In 1964, they found…
4 years, 5 months ago
Mixtape: Jack and Bing
Episode 425
In 1946 Bing Crosby was the king of media. He was the movie star, the pop star and his radio show was reaching a third of American living rooms each …
4 years, 5 months ago
Mixtape: Dakou
Episode 424
Through the 1980s, the vast majority of people in China had never heard western music, save for John Denver, the Carpenters, and a few other artists …
4 years, 5 months ago
Of Bombs and Butterflies
Episode 423
Ecologist Nick Haddad was sitting in his new office at North Carolina State University when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was... The U…
4 years, 5 months ago
Oliver Sipple
Episode 422
One morning, Oliver Sipple went out for a walk. A couple hours later, to his own surprise, he saved the life of the President of the United States. B…
4 years, 6 months ago
HEAVY METAL
Episode 421
Today we have a story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. Rep…
4 years, 6 months ago
In the Running
Episode 420
Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure. In this short, Diane tells us how her disability ga…
4 years, 6 months ago
60 Words, 20 Years
Episode 419
It has now been 20 years since September 11th, 2001. So we’re bringing you a Peabody Award-winning story from our archives about one sentence, writte…
4 years, 6 months ago