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12:50 PM.The Australian improv duo The Bear Pack take one random word and use it as the centrepiece for a whole unscripted story. Steen Raskopoulos and Carlo Ritchie of The Bear Pack bring us some… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.'Dirt Church Radio' is a locally produced show with a focus on trail running- basically running done in New Zealand's great outdoors. We play some of Episode 7 featuring the American ultramarathon… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.'Household Name' takes some of the biggest names in business- global giants like Starbucks and Coca Cola- and uncovers surprising stories from their past. So long ago, way back before he became US… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.From zebra crossings to prison uniforms, from Where's Wally? to the Breton shirt, stripes have always had a knack for grabbing our attention. In a BBC documentary called 'Out of Line', graphic… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Stripy love letter: Out Of Line. Household Name: how the US President made us eat more pizza. Dirt Church Radio: trail running nirvana, and improvised storytelling with The Bear Pack. Audio

12:45 PM.Radio Atlas brings non-English audio documentaries to an English speaking audience using subtitles that are timed to appear on your smartphone screen at exactly the same time as you hear the audio. We… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Dispatch To A Friend involves two real-life friends Gillian Bell and Annabelle Hickson reading out the letters they send to each other in a simple celebration of their friendship. We play part of an… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.He's played in the NBA, and stands over 2 metres tall in his socks, but Paul Shirley isn't your typical basketball jock. For starters he's a talented writer, doesn't take himself too seriously, and… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen took years to write, once had as many as 80 verses, and was practically ignored when it first came out 34 years ago. The BBC Radio 4 series Soul Music tells the story of… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Soul Music: Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'. Globetrotting romances: Stories I Tell On Dates. Loving letters: Dispatch to A Friend. And Radio Atlas: subtitling foreign language audio. Audio

12:50 PM.'Zig Zag' tells the story of two people navigating their way through a profound period of personal change against a backdrop of technological upheaval. Manoush Zomorodi used to host New York Public… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.The ABC series 'Little Tiny' tells short stories about small things that have shaped world history, including one very special cartoon rabbit (who isn't called Bugs!). Read more Audio

12:25 PM.The English writer and presenter Olly Mann's still only in his thirties, but he's already a seasoned veteran of the UK podcasting scene. A few years back, Olly Mann launched his podcast 'The Modern… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.'Bubble' is a comedy imagining what life would be like inside a giant, corporate-controlled dome powered by the gig economy. It's a place where everyone seems to either be building their own app, or… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Bubble: a sci fi comedy. The Modern Mann: lost overboard. Little Tiny: small things that have changed the course of history. Zig Zag: demystifying Blockchain. Audio

12:50 PM.In 'Branch Out', host Vanessa Fuchs goes rustling through the undergrowth at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to show off the science and the stories behind some of its most interesting plants. Trevor… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Back in the early 2000s, a steroids scandal rocked world sport. Famous athletes including the baseball player Barry Bonds, and the track star Marion Jones, got caught taking performance enhancing… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Jonathan Zenti is an independent radio producer living in Rome. He is also overweight. Jonathan doesn't see his size as a problem, but it often seems to be an issue for the people he comes into… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Finding children clothes that they actually want to wear is no easy task. Could part of the problem be that their gaudy designs and garish colours and patterns are probably the work of an adult? And… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Articles of Interest, Meat, American Scandal and Branch Out. Audio

12:55 PM.Nearly 30 years ago, thieves posing as police officers broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and made off with 13 artworks. The total value of the heist in today's market? A cool… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.The badly burned body of a woman is discovered in a valley in Norway. Arranged around her is an odd assortment of objects, and all the labels have been removed from her clothes. Although it sounds… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Tristan Meyer Odell is a typical Canadian teenager with an unusual hobby: he's into taxidermy. And even though stuffing dead animals isn't perhaps the pastime you'd choose for your offspring, his… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Season 1 focussed on one single, extraordinary case, Season 3 looks at the often humdrum, high volume world of daily life in the hulking Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio for insights into how the… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Serial season 3: judging US justice. CBC's The Teenage Taxidermist. A murder mystery? Death In Ice Valley. And the world's biggest art theft: Last Seen. Audio