PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

181 results


468-Peek A Boo Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
466-Dangerous Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Asteroid hunters have discovered more than 90% of the Earth approaching asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. It was thus unus...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
465-Returnee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
464-Big Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KENW, WTIP, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
463-Exiled Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process eno...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
461-Brian's First
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Brian Africano's first Potentially Hazardous Asteroid discovery can come near to the Earth and Mars.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KSFR and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
IE: Inside Europe, 5/18/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
Piece image
• What can be done to salvage the Iran nuclear deal? DW correspondent Thomas Sparrow shares some ideas with Inside Europe host Keith Walker. • Co...

  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
459-Falling Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 5/11/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
Piece image
Exclusive interview with French President Emmanuel Macron who told DW how he had tried, but failed, to keep the US in the Iran nuclear deal. Afte...

  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
457-30 Years of Fireballs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Good Teacher is Like a Candle
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: ouda in front of KXCI–photo by her teacher Christina
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
IE: Inside Europe, 4/20/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
Piece image
On today's program: Is the EU's fight against so-called Russian propaganda in disarray? Will the French and US presidents see eye to eye on Syria? ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Living Planet 03/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
Piece image
Living Planet: Playing with food - This week on the show: from cultured cabbages to musical leeks, we explore the weird and wonderful ways that...

Bought by 'The Sea', KRJF-lp, 'The Sea', KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 12
IE: Inside Europe, 1/19/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
Piece image
The EU stands up to Washington over the Iran nuclear deal - Protests against the Austrian government’s anti-immigration agenda - Remote control: Co...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation
From: Teosson Wells
Piece image
“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 57:07
USA: The Beacon of Immigration
From: Brooklyn College Radio
Piece image
Producer Claudio Martino explores migration and the American dream.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 08:34
  • Purchases: 1
We Do Not See the Faces of War Anymore
From: Donna Granata
Caption: Napalm Girl, Credit: Nick Ut
Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Nigerian Demo
From: Kelly Cogswell
Caption: Adejoke Tugbiyele, Credit: Harriet Hirshorn
In a Global Day of Action, LGBT Nigerians and their allies fight back against new anti-gay laws.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:14
Where is Amarildo de Souza?
From: Free Speech Radio News
Caption: Amarildo de Souza, Credit: Facebook
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas

  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
Italian Tailors: An Age-Old Tradition Unravels
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
Italian Artisans: Shuttered Workshops in the Renaissance’s Birthplace
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Italian Negar Azhar Azari makes a ring by hand in the centuries-old Florentine tradition. , Credit: Maurizio Rufino
Italian artisans craft exquisite objects with their hands, particularly in Florence. Yet aging artisans crippled by Italy’s bureaucracy aren’t abl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Italian Bakers: Mafia Slicing Into Profits
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Baker Salvatore Raccuglia rolls the bread as bakers have done for centuries in Sicily. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Italian breads and pastries are favorites among foodies. But Italian artisan bakeries are shutting down. Changing eating habits, the crisis and t...

Bought by KUOW, KLCC, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 3
Refugees and Children in Conflict
From: S B
Piece image
Professor Michael Wessells of Columbia University takes us beyond war news. What are the true stresses faced by people in war zones and refugees? B...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 11:31
And Always From Behind: Where Women Are Now
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Keep your hands off my character, Credit: Susan Cook
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
Haitian immigrants and the South Florida Economy
From: NPR Economic Training Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With around 80,000 Haitians expected to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow them to legally work and live in South Florida, ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:30