PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 36:54
When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:02
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the insid...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 33:06
- Purchases: 1
When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made bin...
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 37:14
We visit a place where the “black sheep” of the Guggenheim family went to be free.
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 22:27
We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful.
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 22:26
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson was asked to write the manual on lethal injection for the state of Oregon. Capital p...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 27:04
"People wanted to put him up for sainthood because he married me, like he'd made the ultimate sacrifice."
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 19:54
- Purchases: 2
A story about finding your way home.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 24:33
A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 24:49
An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 23:07
- Purchases: 3
In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 23:33
- Purchases: 1
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 1
No-Fear-Teti of Egypt's Cairollers discusses Women's Roller Derby in post-revolutionary Egypt.
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 41:06
EU'sCapitalCitiesofCulture, 2014, include Riga,Latvia & Umea, Sweden. Both are known for Art,Music&Dance, Festivals,Historic Sites.
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00:05
Bobby podcasts from Jersey City Tattoo Co., located in downtown Jersey City, with Jake Kolatis, guitarist of the New York City hardcore punk band, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2013
- Length: 30:19
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 10:53
- Purchases: 4
I asked "Who Do You Think Should Be The Next President?" To People Around my school.
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 02:26