PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:15
When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:41
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 49:09
- Purchases: 1
In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 52:51
There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 3
Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 4
Radio is dead. Or so we are told. Video was supposed to have killed the radio star. Is the internet going to finish It off? International broadcast...
Bought by KQED, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and global24radio
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 02:09
Preston Bus Station is considered one of the finest examples of British "Brutalist" architecture. Built in 1969 at the time of its construction it ...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 15:00
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 06:31
Band by distance… or banned by distance? A radio portrait for one of the two members of a band that is banned by distance, The Pencils!
- Added: May 06, 2012
- Length: 07:09
Rick Steves is a popular PBS Travel Host and has authored dozens of travel guides. Here he speaks passionately about marijuana reform at the NORML ...
Bought by KSFR and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Aug 31, 2009
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
