Army Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths.
NPR reports that Army suicides in January were the highest since they started counting (1980).
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Crazed Chimp Audio
Here is the audio of that 911 call to the police in North Stamford Connecticut. A disturbing, profound clip and an historic moment in audio documentary history.
New Radio Lab Podcast: Is Dying optional?
Radio Lab asks the question and finds that yes, sometimes (in some ways) it is... Think about CPR for starters.
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Playtime: 15 minutes 50 seconds
Female Punk Thai Forensic Scientist Takes on the System
Her "spiky red hair" - done by Thailand's top hair dresser - protects her. She says the Thai police hate her after she took them on in some high profile cases - even implicating the police themselves in some cases.
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Playtime: 22 minutes 34 seconds
Date: June, 2009
Wisconsin Death Trip on BackStory (sensitive images)
The newish history show from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities put together this slide show to accompany it's most recent episode. [Please note they slide show contains pictures of dead people (including children) -- albiet from a very long time ago.]
Talking to the Dead
Story of Lily Dale, NY - a town of mediums who communicate with the dead. This is mostly a nonjudgmental portrait but one of my favorite moments is when a young medium gets a message from the dead that there is a prank being played on someone right now - and that the person might not be aware a prank is being played on them... Sounds about right.
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Playtime: 28 minutes 30 seconds
New Radio Lab: After Life
New Radio Lab is about the moment of death - when, how, what...
From the website: "[I]n a slight departure from our regular format, we bring you eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die."
Dolphin killing in Japan
How Flipper spured an international obsession with dolphins, swimming with dolphins, and places like Seaworld which, in turn, supports a multi-million dollar industry that slaughters dolphins.
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WaPo Slide Show on Teddy
Washington Post Slide Audio Slide show on the late Edward Moore (Ted) Kennedy.
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On the Train With Another Fallen Kennedy
NYTimes audio slide show about Paul Fusco's "RFK Funeral Train" project. Fusco was a photog for Look Magazine on board the train carrying Robert Kennedy from L.A. to D.C. Found as part of Benjamin Chesterton's "Mulitmedia of the Month" series on Resolve: "A collaborative online community that brings together photographers and photo industry professionals of every kind to find ways to keep photography relevant, respected, and profitable."
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AP Audio Slideshow: Death of a Marine
An Ap audio slideshow of a Marine battle in Afgantistan. The audio componant makes one think of what a good photographer she is. But the images are gripping, nontheless.
Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
There has never been a proven case of an innocent person getting the death penalty. The case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in Texas in 2004, may become the first.
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New York is Safer Now. What's a Crime Writer to do?
To find what remains of the gritty New York, NPR takes the Ikea ferry to Red Hook? Maybe they can find one of those gritty French fusion restaurants that make their own cheese - Chez Gritte?
Kidding aside, a cool story about the history of Red Hook, Brooklyn -- and a broad look at the direction of present Brooklyn.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out...
The green burial movement: featuring a 34-year-old woman who would like to have her body composted by worms.
Winner of Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Documentary, from the Radio & Television News Directors Association, 2009. Winner of PRNDI Award for Best Documentary from Public Radio News Directors Inc., 2009.
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Freedom From Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi has turned 65, still under house arrest, 20 years after being elected Prime Minister of Burma. This profile of her captures her symbolism, strength and beauty, in both content and form.
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Playtime: 22 minutes 41 seconds
Ageing, living
The book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives gets a radio reprieve with a new story specially commissioned for the BBC's One Planet programme about ageing. But this episode is most noteworthy as the one where the host makes an old lady cry.
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Playtime: 26 minutes 29 seconds
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UK Today
While the furrowed brows of the BBC World Service are on holidays, they've let the creatives loose, with great effect. Two engaging documentaries about UK citizens who have been put somewhere difficult. Philip McTaggart's son committed suicide, changing his life. Mary Thida Lun's mom fled the Khmer Rouge, and now has a daughter serving in war zones as a British civil servant. Big topics, in a manner more full of human contradiction and personality than we usually hear on the BBC World Service.
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Playtime: 22 minutes 29 seconds
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Interview, History, Death, Gender, Violence, Immigration, Health and Beauty, Interesting
Mine rescue, 1936
As the world's media watches the rescue of trapped miners in Chile, we look back to 1936, when the Canadian Radio Commission reported for six days the attempts to rescue three men trapped in a mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia. A selection of the reports, from the CBC Archives.
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Playtime: 11 minutes 44 seconds