Note for returning listeners: This is the same premiere episode previously released as the This Day in Deaths pilot. The stories, names, and narration are unchanged. What is new is the musical introduction — remixed and retimed for the series going forward.

Tonight, just after midnight, the first names arrive.

In the premiere episode of This Day in Deaths, a ruined children's book, a loose theater marquee letter, a coat lining full of handwritten destinations, and a returned library copy begin to draw a quiet map between strangers.

Told as a late-night obituary broadcast, "The Map of Elsewhere" follows a series of fictional deaths reported from across the country: a young hotel worker in Sacramento carrying a damaged book, an Ohio geography teacher who mapped places he never vi ...