PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality

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

27 results


Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Child marriage is a major issue that plagues many third-world countries. In West Africa, these girls are finally being given a voice.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Piece image
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
Piece image
Mishy Harman and Marie Röder visit an empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, where they shadow the duo behind one of Israel’s most popular news...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 17:56
Piece image
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways in which we say goodbye to loved ones. Yochai Maital has been collecting sound from recorded online fune...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 07:49
Piece image
Sample BBC Reporting from the 1990s

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 06:24
Piece image
Living Planet: To the ends of the Earth - Our planet is full of remote and risky places — and some people will do anything to protect them or u...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
Episode 8: Houda & Melanie refer to Houda’s apartment complex in Tucson as Small Syria—16 Syrian families live there today, but a year ago there we...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
Caption: Houssam, Houda’s father, holds his newborn granddaughter Shooq in Jordan two days before the family left for America.
Episode 2: We begin to introduce you to Houda’s family.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
Piece image
Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: kilimanjaro, Credit: LN Lurie
My experience of climbing the Roof of Africa!

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 22:22
Piece image
Conservationists in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica describe their relationship with birds. Excerpted from "Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: View of the Shard from the Heygate Estate, Credit: Chris Wood
A documentary montage of soundscapes and voices from Elephant and Castle, London, UK the site of Europe's largest urban re-generation project. The ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 46:19
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
Piece image
The Supreme Council of Education (SEC) wants to teach Qatari History as a mandatory subject in all the private schools in Qatar, starting from the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 08:33
Piece image
Come on a self-drive road-trip through Namibia and learn how tourism is helping to conserve wildlife, habitat, and culture. PRX exclusive, slated f...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
He wasn’t political about it. He didn’t particularly talk about politics and stuff. He did it his own way. He didn’t have to talk about that. All h...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 11:34
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
This piece is called Grey Areas and it's about how close I am to my dad, in a literal sense, it's also a tribute to the the neighbour we buried in ...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Piece image
A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on ...

  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Istanbul, Credit: Anton Foek
In Nederland willen we eerlijk en open met elkaar omgaan. Maar als het aan het Openbaar Ministerie ligt wordt daar grof en oneerlijk onderscheid i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
Caption: Mohammed Sher Ali Khan, Credit: Alex Stonehill
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were already fleeing the Swat Valley before the latest fighting broke out. Sher Ali Khan, 55, is one of them. ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:48
Caption: Lisle Snell at Island Fish Fry, Credit: jake Warga
Norfolk Island, Australia, is a small rock in the middle of the South Pacific, but not immune to the global financial crisis.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 04:31
Piece image
Visiting the German troops in the north of Afghanistan

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 10, 2008
  • Length: 01:44
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Loss of Status

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Change of Scenery

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2008
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1