PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality

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

157 results


435-Number 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Asteroid Hunter, Alex Gibbs, discovered a comet on one of it's rare visits to our neighborhood.

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WLPR , KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
434-Biggest Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The largest Earth approaching space rock, found by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2017, is 3,250 feet in diameter. One like it strikes the Earth every ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
402-Above Scotland
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The CubeSat industry is making relatively low cost exploration of space possible and is creating heretofore undreamed of opportunities for the hum...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
401-Night Vision
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
394-Tiny Beasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A partnership with yeast and algae will enable spacefaring humans to use their waste products to produce food and plastics during long duration spa...

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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
386-Interplanetary Sand Traps
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Topographic features on rubble pile asteroids are produced in a novel way.

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


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
385-Phoning Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
381-Peaceful Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Hypnotic Induction
From: The Organist
Piece image
“If you’re listening to this while driving a car, obviously, leave your eyes open.” In this special appendix to our recent episode on psychoacousti...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:35
Jamaican Versus American Musics - Who Influenced Who?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 43:39
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Piece image
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
Standardized Patients
From: Hillary Rea
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A first-person account of being a standardized patient and discovering the importance of the doctor-patient relationship.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
"The Gift of the Magi." by O.Henry
From: Clive Desmond
Series: Pod Planet
Piece image
Poor young New York couple wrestle with buying each other secret Christmas gifts. First published on Dec 10 1905.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 19:29
  • Purchases: 1
Now There's Only Time To Live Forever
From: Jessica Ripka
Caption: Penelope DeWitt at Stoney Beach after her recording session, Credit: Jessica Ripka
Think about something you've spent your whole life wanting to do. Now try to think about what's kept you from doing it. What comes to mind? For...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:34
  • Purchases: 2
305-Murky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A very close approaching asteroid is observed to pass through the Earth's shadow.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
294-Dangerous Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Asteroid hunters have discovered two more asteroids which could become a threat to planet Earth.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
293-From Luna
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A rock blasted from the Moon by the impact of an asteroid or comet may be on its way to Earth.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
286-Neighboring World
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Astronomers have discovered an Earth sized planet orbiting the closest star to our Sun.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, Radio Newark, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
285-Mars Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A given piece of ground on Mars is more likely to be hit by a space rock than is an equal sized area on planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, Radio Newark, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
281-Starlight Walking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Experience the age old sense of wonder which happens when a human looks into deep space and thinks about what might be out there.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
280-Ice Volcanoes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
On a dwarf planet, ice volcanos appear to have shaped the surface of Ceres.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
278-Nope
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
This is the story of the big one that got away.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
272-Big Eye
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A giant telescope, under construction, will give us a picture of how objects in the Universe change with time.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
270-Space Opals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Opals from space are likely to have brought some of the water we drink to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
268-Mars Weather Report
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
You will need long woolies and a spacesuit to survive on Mars.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7