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  • 1. This American Life

    This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered...Show More

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    1:16:11 | Jul 5th, 2020

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    We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus from the manufacturer, possibly as high as $85,00...Show More

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  • 2. The Kitchen Sisters Present

    The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. The episodes tell deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerh...Show More

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    108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System

    22:20 | Jan 22nd, 2019

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    Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and serial sexual harasser. Forced out of the American L...Show More

  • 3. East Bay Yesterday

    East Bay history podcast that gathers, shares & celebrate stories from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

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    “Where are those ancestors now?”: How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture

    40:22 | Mar 23rd, 2017

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    Have you ever wondered what the East Bay was like before colonization? In this episode, Corrina Gould of Indian People Organizing for Change shares knowledge of how her ancestors, the Ohlone people, m...Show More

  • 4. Sidedoor

    More than 154 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults, but where public view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through...Show More

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    Painting Michelle Obama

    24:59 | Apr 25th, 2018

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    The day that Amy Sherald heard that she had been chosen to paint the official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, she called her mom to tell her the news, and then she told her dog. But soon after,...Show More

  • 5. It's Been a Minute

    Has it been a minute since you heard a thought-provoking conversation about culture? Brittany Luse wants to help. Each week, she takes the things everyone's talking about and, in conversation with her favorite creators, tastemakers, and experts, give...Show More

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    Interview: Karamo Brown On 'Queer Eye' & 'Embracing Purpose'

    51:29 | Apr 2nd, 2019

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    Sam talks to the Fab Fiver about how he learned to heal himself before he could help others.

  • 6. Buried Truths

    “Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. The podcast is hosted by journalist, professor, and...Show More

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    Pistols | S1 E1

    38:26 | Mar 26th, 2018

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    After Primus King, a black barber and pastor, successfully sued the Democratic Party for denying his right to vote on the grounds of race and color, three-term Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge declare...Show More

  • 7. Conviction

    Manuel Gomez is a detective straight out of a detective novel. He carries a pen that’s really a knife, wears a watch that’s really a camera, adores Sherlock Holmes and Miami Vice. But the cases Gomez takes on are all too real: cases of young men in N...Show More

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    Episode 1: Meet the Quinneys (Season 2)

    27:57 | Feb 25th, 2020

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    In 1989, nine-year-old John Quinney accused his father Melvin of being a satanic cult leader and abusing him in satanic rituals. His father vehemently denied the charges. It was a case that tore their...Show More

  • 8. Gangster Capitalism

    The C13Originals Peabody nominated series is back for Season Three: Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University. A sex scandal rocks one of the world’s largest Christian universities, and the man at the center of it. But that scandal is just the beginni...Show More

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    Introducing Season 1: The College Admissions Scandal

    04:29 | Apr 18th, 2019

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    With exclusive interviews and thought-provoking discussion, Andrew Jenks examines the people involved and the larger debate around higher education in America. To learn more about listener data and ...Show More

  • 9. The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

    For the past two years, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ronan Farrow has been following a trail of clues from his investigation of Harvey Weinstein to other blockbuster stories about the systems that protect powerful men accused of terrible crimes ...Show More

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    Episode 1: The Spy

    35:35 | Nov 26th, 2019

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    Igor Ostrovskiy is a private investigator in New York. In 2017, he was contracted to surveil Ronan Farrow on behalf of a secret client. Igor would eventually learn that the secret client was Black Cub...Show More

  • 10. Relative Unknown

    From the Peabody Award nominated C13Originals Studio, and the creators of Root of Evil, comes a new documentary series about the stories, and family we can’t escape. Jackee Taylor has been hidden in WITSEC, better known as the Witness Protection Prog...Show More

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    Presenting Hope, Through History Season Two

    02:26 | Jul 28th, 2021

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    The entire Season 2 of C13Originals' critically acclaimed Hope, Through History is available now. Narrated and written by Pulitzer Prize Winning and Best Selling Historian, Jon Meacham, Season Two exp...Show More

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