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Sun-Man
Aug 19, 2026
In 1984, Yla Eason’s three-year-old son told her he couldn’t be a superhero because he wasn’t white like his He-Man action figures. So she looked for a Black action figure for him. When she couldn’t…
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Hotline!
Aug 05, 2026
An episode all about hotlines - and the people who answer the calls.
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Sextus Congenius Verus
Jul 15, 2026
When Daniella Santoro and her husband started clearing their backyard in New Orleans, they found a strange stone under a satsuma tree. The stone had letters carved into it – like a gravestone. “We…
The Asteroid Hunter
Jul 01, 2026
In the early ’90s, a comet smashed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. No one had seen anything like it before, and astronomers quickly realized that we should be monitoring…
The Golden Record
Jun 17, 2026
In 1977, Ann Druyan was asked to help create a message from Earth that would leave our solar system and last for more than a billion years.
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The Photograph
Jun 03, 2026
Bob Brigham always knew he was adopted, but growing up, he didn’t know anything about his biological parents. When he was seven years old, a social worker came for a visit and Bob heard her whisper…
Wimbledon in a Cornfield
May 20, 2026
Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis…
SOS
May 06, 2026
Brandon and Gina hadn’t known each other long when they found themselves lost 8,500 feet high on a mountain. “We started yelling and nobody yelled back.”
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The French Fries
Apr 15, 2026
One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found another bag. And then another…
Feeling Good
Apr 01, 2026
One night, a stranger came up to comedian Dan Perlman and told him he looked just like the singer Michael Bublé. She asked Dan if he would impersonate him for one night. He had six days to get ready…
You've Got Mail
Mar 18, 2026
Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people…
A Needle in a Haystack
Mar 04, 2026
A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help.
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Chloe and the Hare
Feb 18, 2026
“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn't need me, but seemed to be…
The Treasure Hunt
Feb 04, 2026
In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get…
Into the Ice
Jan 21, 2026
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished…
The Obituary Section
Jan 07, 2026
Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about.
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The Long Walk
Dec 17, 2025
When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thru-hiking the Appalachian…
How's Your Life?
Dec 03, 2025
When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks…
Cry
Nov 19, 2025
In 1971, for his mother’s birthday, Alvin Ailey gave her a ballet. The dance was grueling – sometimes the women who did it bled. “I remember very well seeing my mother on her knees scrubbing these…
Ava and the Pickpocket
Nov 05, 2025
“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he would steal.” In 2004, Ava Do met a professional pickpocket at a bachelorette party in Las Vegas. And…
One More Time
Oct 22, 2025
A visitor to the islands of the Pacific Northwest once described seeing “a forest of totem poles.” But by the time Robert Davidson was born, there wasn't a single one left standing in his…
A Sky of Kites
Oct 08, 2025
People in India have been flying kites for hundreds of years – using them to predict the weather, carry love letters, and compete in the air. But they share the sky and a name with hundreds of…
The Throne
Sep 24, 2025
In 1964, a landlord in Washington, DC, noticed that his tenant hadn’t paid rent and went to look for him. The tenant wasn’t in the building – but he’d left behind something strange – something that…
My Penny
Sep 10, 2025
In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him who he was, or how he got there. Because he didn’t…
The World According to Rick Steves
Aug 20, 2025
Never check a bag, always bring a journal, and consider duct tape: a conversation with Rick Steves.
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Alone Together
Aug 06, 2025
In 1966, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had been married for three years. They’d bought a house in the suburbs in the middle of England, and had jobs at the tax office and a printing press. “They're…
The Sea Around Us
Jul 16, 2025
When writer Rachel Carson built a house on Maine’s Southport Island, her new neighbor, Dorothy Freeman, sent her a note to welcome her. Rachel wrote back. And when the summer was over, they kept…
Hot Dog!
Jul 02, 2025
An episode all about hot dogs and the people who love them.
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The Terra Nova
Jun 18, 2025
In 1910, a group of British men set off on an expedition – they wanted to be the first people to reach the South Pole. Over a hundred years later, in the journals and letters that survived, a writer…
An American Original
Jun 04, 2025
In 1963, Jeanne and Alan Abel traveled to Washington, DC to picket in front of the White House. They said they were part of a campaign that wanted to put clothes on animals — including the first…