Looking for Wolves

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Looking for Wolves

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Mar 25, 2020

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All new stories, starting April 1. Stories about animals and the wild, and what happens when we take time to look around us.
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Mar 25, 2020

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A Private Life: Nino and Drew kept their relationship a secret for more than 40 years. And then, they decided to do something that forced them into the spotlight. by This is Love
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The Wolves: We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. by This is Love
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Nelson’s Camera: In 1983, Nelson Sullivan picked up a video camera and started filming everything – going to nightclubs in New York City, shopping at the grocery store, even waiting for a flight at the airport. "He became the narrator of his own life story.” by This is Love
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Something Large and Wild: An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild. by This is Love
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Nothing Compares to You: In 1983, Susan Rogers moved thousands of miles from home to work with her favorite artist in the world: Prince. "He was unlike any human I'd ever known,” she says. A story about making remarkable things, together. by This is Love
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The Run: In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about what's possible when we bet everything on each another. by This is Love
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Eight Thousand Miles: A story about finding your way home. by This is Love
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Everything Floats: We visit a place where the “black sheep” of the Guggenheim family went to be free. by This is Love
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What Are We Going To Do: "People wanted to put him up for sainthood because he married me, like he'd made the ultimate sacrifice." by This is Love
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How to Be Alone: More than 40 years ago, a man moved to an abandoned mining town to be alone. He says that there are days in the winter "when it's so quiet that the noisiest thing is the snow hitting your jacket." by This is Love
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Beneath the City: Evan Woodard explores the city of Baltimore from underneath. He searches for things buried underground—things that some people might consider trash. We decided to go to Baltimore and join him on a dig. by This is Love
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Always Tomorrow: A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance. by This is Love
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This Is Love: From the makers of the award-winning podcast Criminal, an investigation into life’s most persistent mystery: love. by This is Love
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Ugly Club: We visit a place where it's good to be ugly. by This is Love
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Antelope Island: When Kayleigh Davis saw Kyler Bourgeous' profile on a dating app, she liked that he loved the outdoors as much as she did. But what really stood out is that he said he'd survived a bison attack. So, Kayleigh messaged him, and asked to hear the story. And then, something impossible happened. by This is Love
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One in a Million: A story about moving at your own pace. by This is Love
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How to Live Forever: An experiment in living together, forever. by This is Love
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Looking for Wolves: All new stories, starting April 1. Stories about animals and the wild, and what happens when we take time to look around us. by This is Love
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Among the Oak Trees: One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door down the hall that had a red tarp over it, and the nurses were avoiding the room. So she decided to sneak in. by This is Love
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The Town That Stayed Quiet: We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful. by This is Love
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We're Back: We're very excited to announce that Season Two is coming November 14th! Here’s a sneak peek… by This is Love
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He Left in a Storm, He’ll Return in a Storm: There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she became so heartbroken that she started walking along the cliffs in storms and cursing other ships. The story goes that she believed that if she had lost the person she loved to the sea, everyone else should too. She became known as “The Sea Witch of Billingsgate,” and her story has haunted Cape Cod for the last 300 years. by This is Love
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Andiamo!: We have news. by This is Love
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Message in a Bottle: A woman finds a mysterious message in a bottle, and becomes consumed with finding out who wrote it and why. by This is Love
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The Memory Artist: One day Franco Magnani picked up a paintbrush. by This is Love
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Blue: The story of a color marked by effort and desire. by This is Love
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Into the Ice: The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished divers in the world, and they traveled for 12 days through the rough waters of the Southern Ocean. Attempting to dive into cracks in the iceberg, her life was in very real danger three times. And the third time, she would be saved by an animal so small, so transparent, that you can see its heart beating right through its skin. by This is Love
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Roselle and Michael: Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that something was wrong was the sound of a muffled explosion. Then the building began to tilt, and he felt the floor drop like an elevator. But Michael Hingson didn’t panic because his guide dog, Roselle, was calm. by This is Love
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The Kinseys: Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters in Tallahassee. Years later, when their son Khalil was born, Bernard and Shirley made a plan — they wanted him to understand where he came from, and where his ancestors came from. So they decided to become detectives, uncovering the history of the Black experience in America. by This is Love
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