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Sold a Story Podcast Transcripts

APM Reports · 24 episodes with transcripts

Sold a Story is an investigative podcast about how kids learn — what works in the classroom, the science behind those insights and why that research often doesn’t make it into schools.

Spoken has transcripts of 24 Sold a Story episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 1, 2026.

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24 episodes of Sold a Story have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1649580473/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Sold a Story transcripts

Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching

October 1, 2026

Emily Hanford (0:00)

In the 1960s, the federal government set out to answer a profound question. What are the best ways to teach?

SPEAKER_2 (0:10)

They evaluated different philosophies of education.

Emily Hanford (0:13)

The idea is, let's try to find out what works. The study involved hundreds of thousands of students and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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