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The Leap

From a doctor’s controversial LSD treatments to a mother’s high-risk efforts to recover her abducted child to a punk rock pioneer’s radical career reinvention, these are stories of people making drama... Read more

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When a Stranger Gives You $125 Million

When a Stranger Gives You $125 Million

Subscribe in iTunesDon’t miss an episode of The Leap.Also available via RSS.One morning last year, Bryan Bashin sat down... Read more

3 Nov 2015

24mins

Ranked #2

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The Dinner Date

The Dinner Date

Eileen (Jeremy Raff/KQED)Subscribe in iTunes Don’t miss an episode of The Leap. Also available via RSS. In this episode ... Read more

20 Oct 2015

20mins

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The Improbable Transformation of a Punk Pioneer

The Improbable Transformation of a Punk Pioneer

James Williamson became a punk rock legend as part of the 1970s band The Stooges. He wrote the songs and played guitar o... Read more

18 Nov 2015

25mins

Ranked #4

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Caught in a Pipe

Caught in a Pipe

Subscribe in iTunesDon’t miss an episode of The Leap.Also available via RSS.It started with a knocking sound, then whisp... Read more

3 Dec 2015

18mins

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My Name Is Shawn and I Prefer He

My Name Is Shawn and I Prefer He

Subscribe in iTunesDon’t miss an episode of The Leap.Also available via RSS.Shawn Demmons is a 50-year-old man now, but ... Read more

16 Dec 2015

21mins

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The Elementary Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Elementary Kool-Aid Acid Test

In the early 1960’s, a psychologist named Gary Fisher carried out a radical experiment on severely emotionally disturbed... Read more

11 Apr 2017

32mins

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Little Girl Lost

Little Girl Lost

Sunday, Dec. 9, 1984 is a day Beth McGhee will never forget. It’s the day her 3-year-old daughter, Neola, vanished, kidn... Read more

15 May 2018

38mins

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Out of the Pond

Out of the Pond

Tesilya Hanauer grew up on a commune deep in a Northern California forest. When she was five, her mother joined a nomadi... Read more

28 Feb 2017

35mins

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An Unorthodox Life

An Unorthodox Life

Henny Kupferstein grew up in the Belz sect of ultra-orthodox, Hasidic Jews in Borough Park, Brooklyn. From early childho... Read more

25 Apr 2017

33mins

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Listener Stories – A Boat, a Baby and the Blue Skies of Montana

Listener Stories – A Boat, a Baby and the Blue Skies of Montana

We’ve been asking for your stories, and on the last episode of Season 2, we highlight three of our listeners’ leaps. Gav... Read more

9 May 2017

40mins

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