The Leap

By KQED

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... more

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How many episodes does The Leap have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.

The Leap episodes:

December 03, 2015 Caught in a Pipe
It started with a knocking sound, then whispers, then the strange conviction that he could read people’s minds. In this story, we meet Frankie as he sprints away from his history of mental illness and toward the “normal” life he always wanted.
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22min
December 03, 2015 S1 Episode 5: Caught in a Pipe
It started with a knocking sound, then whispers, then the strange conviction that he could read people’s minds. In this story, we meet Frankie as he sprints away from his history of mental illness and toward the “normal” life he always wanted.
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19min
November 18, 2015 The Improbable Transformation of a Punk Pioneer
James Williamson became a punk rock legend as part the 1970s band The Stooges. But, a few years into it, he just walked away.
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29min
November 18, 2015 S1 Episode 4: The Improbable Transformation of a Punk Pioneer
James Williamson became a punk rock legend as part the 1970s band The Stooges. But, a few years into it, he just walked away.
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25min
November 03, 2015 When a Stranger Gives You $125 Million
After a Seattle businessman left his fortune to a San Francisco blindness organization, its director went in search of an explanation. He found a secret the two men had shared.
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27min
November 03, 2015 S1 Episode 3: When a Stranger Gives You $125 Million
After a Seattle businessman left his fortune to a San Francisco blindness organization, its director went in search of an explanation. He found a secret the two men had shared.
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25min
October 20, 2015 The Dinner Date
Two friends, brought together in a tragic coincidence, take a leap back out of the darkness.
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23min
October 20, 2015 S1 Episode 2: The Dinner Date
Two friends, brought together in a tragic coincidence, take a leap back out of the darkness.
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22min
October 06, 2015 The Strange Journey of the World’s Worst Smell
What does the smell of butt crack and dead animal have to do with the demise of the American manufacturing industry and the battlefields of Iraq?
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27min
October 06, 2015 S1 Episode 1: The Strange Journey of the World’s Worst Smell
What does the smell of butt crack and dead animal have to do with the demise of the American manufacturing industry and the battlefields of Iraq?
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25min

FAQs about The Leap:

How many episodes does The Leap have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.