The Texas Tank: A Prison Radio Station Changing Lives

The Texas Tank: A Prison Radio Station Changi...

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World Cup poetry: Lines for the beautiful game

Describing the joy (and heartache) of football is the job of commentators at this summer's FIFA World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico. In the Studio hears how the loyalties of California's poet laureate Lee Herrick are divided between the USA and his birth country, South Korea, ...  عرض المزيد

Mapping Epstein's global connections

The personal correspondence, photographs and papers of the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been released to the public in stages, beginning in December 2025, after an almost unanimous vote in the US Senate. The released files run to three and a half ...  عرض المزيد

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A Texas Prison's Radio Station Helps Incarcerated Men Build Community
Consider This from NPR

The men on death row in Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a maximum security prison in southeastern Texas, spend most of their time in solitary confinement, isolated from each other. Now, a prison radio station is giving them a sense of community and a way to be heard.Keri Blakinger talks ...  عرض المزيد

Inmates at Calipatria Brett May & Alex Zapien discuss being an LWOP (life without the possibility of parole)
REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Brett May and Alex Zapien are serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) at Calipatria State Prison – a maximum security facility in the remote California Desert, 40 miles from the Mexican border. We had a unique opportunity to go inside Calipatria to discuss their early lives, the horri ...  عرض المزيد

A sneak listen to National Prison Radio
The Secret Life of Prisons

The Prison Radio Association is the charity that produces this podcast. Our day job is running National Prison Radio, which is the world's first national radio station for people in prison. It broadcasts 24/7 into the cells of 80,000 people in prison across England and Wales.< ...

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1. The Nightstalker: Who marries a serial killer?
Bad People

In the summer of 1984 a serial killer was on the loose in Los Angeles. Richard Ramirez or the ‘night stalker’ as he would come to be known, broke into people’s houses as they slept and then proceeded to rape, torture and murder whoever was inside. He would sometimes draw satanic ...  عرض المزيد