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.

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.

James Williamson became a punk rock legend as part the 1970s band The Stooges. But, a few years into it, he just walked away.

James Williamson became a punk rock legend as part the 1970s band The Stooges. But, a few years into it, he just walked away.

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.

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.

Two friends, brought together in a tragic coincidence, take a leap back out of the darkness.

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?

The Leap is about what it takes to start out one place and end up somewhere, or someone, else. Here's a sample of what you will hear on the podcast.

Podcasts are hot right now. The success of This American Life’s hugely popular Serial has certainly played an important role, with Pew Research Center data showing that podcast listenership has been growing consistently over the past two years. The perc