Criminal: Turning The Crime Narrative On Its Head

The North Carolina podcast Criminalis on a mission to tell the stories of “people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.” 

The show is  one of the top-ranked podcasts on iTunes. Criminal celebrates its one-year anniversary this month with a live show at Motorco Music Hall in Durham tonight at 8 p.m. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with two of the show’s creators, Phoebe Judge and Eric Mennel, about their vision for the project and the stories behind some of their favorite episodes.

Here are some of the full-length episodes featured in today's conversation:

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Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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