All Pieces for PRX

 
Hour Five: "Civil Rights" and "Let's Have Church"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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In the fifties and sixties, Black DJs did more than play music -- they were among the first messengers of the civil rights movement. In the second ...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KUHF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 72
Hour Four: "A Woman's Touch" and "In Control"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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Women -- both on and off the air -- have had substantial roles in the development and power of Black radio, including African American station owne...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCQS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 70
Hour Three: "Rappers & Rhymers" and "Sounding Black"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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From the 1940s onward, legendary Black deejays created unique, ear-catching styles.

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 71
Hour Two: "Jack Cooper & Al Beson" and "WDIA, The Goodwill Station"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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Jack Cooper's popular program in Chicago debuted in 1929; he helped pioneer the DJ format and was the first to air news and sports coverage for Bla...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 73
Hour One: "In the Beginning" and "Pride & Enlightenment"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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The series opens by traveling to the 1920s to hear how Black Americans fought for space on radio airwaves. Then, we hear about programs in the 1940...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 79
Generic Promo for Black Radio 25th Anniversary Edition
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was is the story of radio’s role in the 20th century transformation of the African American community. First aired ...

Bought by WCQS, Morton College Radio, High Plains Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, KCLU and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 41
And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women's Fight for the Vote
From: PRX
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In the centennial year of the 19th Amendment, Rosario Dawson and Retta guide us through the fight for women’s voting rights, a history that resonat...

Bought by WILL, KUHF, KGOU, WKMS, PRX Demo Station and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 50
Building 29
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: The James Webb Space Telescope in the vast cleanroom of Building 29 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center., Credit: NASA
Orbital Path signs off with a site visit to NASA’s extraordinary building 29.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WCNY, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 31:07
  • Purchases: 3
Hello, Asteroid!
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: Bennu comes into focus., Credit: Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.
Billion-year-old asteroid dust, coming right up!

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 20:45
  • Purchases: 2
Black Holes from the Dawn of Light
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: Super-massive black hole (artist's rendering)., Credit: NASA
Astronomers investigate a mystery that is 13 billion years old.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 22:34
  • Purchases: 2
Space Lasers for the Home Planet
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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NASA develops a futuristic space laser. Launches it into orbit. And aims it directly back at planet Earth.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 23:58
  • Purchases: 2
Brian Greene goes to 11 — again
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Humans! Time to get over your three-dimensional selves. 
Brian Greene — world renowned physicist, bestselling author, NOVA host, and serial Colbert...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 30:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Universe of Leonard Susskind
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Has a Bronx plumber’s son become the Einstein of our time?

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 3
Mars Goes Organic
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: The Curiosity rover on Mars., Credit: NASA
NASA has found organic molecules on Mars. Could life be next?

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, WRGY, KUER, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 6
Earth, Desert Planet?
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: Mars appears, like Earth, once to have been crossed by flowing rivers., Credit: NASA
Adults don’t have all the answers — or all the questions. In our second edition of TELESCOPE, Michelle grapples with an 8th grader’s question about...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, KUER, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 4
Our Darkening Universe
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Adam Riess was only 41 when he was named a Nobel Prize winner. The Johns Hopkins distinguished professor of astronomy shared in the award for his w...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WCNY, KICI Iowa City, WDBM, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 21:30
  • Purchases: 6
Introducing...Telescope!
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Adults don’t have all the answers — or all the questions. So Michelle takes on some astronomical queries from 8th-graders.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
Star Death Tango
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: Artist's rendering, Credit: CALTECH/NSF/LIGO Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
In the time of the dinosaurs, two stars spiraled to their deaths. And 130 million years later, they taught humans the origin of gold.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WCNY, KICI Iowa City, and KUER


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 24:11
  • Purchases: 4
Ozone Disaster Redux
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
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Science for science’s sake may be luxury we can all do without — until, as happened during the 1980s, it quite literally saves the world.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KICI Iowa City, KUER, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 4
Fireside Physics: A Solstice on Saturn?
From: PRX
Series: Orbital Path
Caption: The winter solstice gets tricky if your home planet has rings..., Credit: NASA
The winter solstice: a time to curl up by the fire, toast marshmallows, and reflect on the passage of the seasons...on other planets.

Bought by KWMR, KPIP-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 3

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