PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 26:03
A well-known fruit with a not-so-well-known history.
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 02:30
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:02:02
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
An interview with Danforth Prince, author of "The Seductive Sapphic Exploits of Mercedes de Acosta: Hollywood's Greatest Lover"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 24:30
“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 2
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:01
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 01:13:07
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.
Bought by ABC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 31:31
- Purchases: 2
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 3
A funny look at the things French People Find Strange About The U.S.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 4
Stories change. People change. Communities change.
The first episode of 12 Knots, The Drift, features three stories from the small island communit...
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 43:06
Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 11:50
When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 14:42
- Purchases: 3
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Julia Scheeres/Jonestown Patricia Cohen/middle-age Vern Yip/decorator Dr. Richard Ablin/Prostate Cancer Susan Shane/desk exercise
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 54:00
Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 20:21
- Purchases: 3
In 2014 the United States had 650 reported cases of measles, a disease made preventable by a vaccine introduced 30 years ago. The majority of these...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 01:27:06
The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...
Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
