PRX - Pieces for Format: Debut (not aired nationally)

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

413 results


The Sacred Cow
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Moench
No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...

Bought by WEZU and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Author Charles Mann and Life in the New World
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

Bought by WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
Capitalism v Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Timothy K. Kuhner, Credit: Georgia State University
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lisa See and her “China Dolls”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Kidney Sellers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere
America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Honest Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Julia Schopick
Author Julia Schopick introduces four lifesaving treatments that have been effectively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25 to 90 year...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How The Tractor Ruined Farming
From: Erik Olesund
Caption: Matt and his dad Larry on the combine. Colorado, 1979
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
Psychiatrist Judith Orloff with "Ecstasy of Surrender"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
Orloff is an Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA who incorporates energy medicine in her practice. In her fifth book she invites reader...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Explosion Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Gottfried
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rogue Traders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Scott E.D. Skyrm
When one of Wall Streets biggest scams was revealed in a segment on 60 Minutes, viewers were outraged. Front Running. Although it is legal, it’s, a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Water Revolutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Wade Graham
The Western United States has entered a very difficult drought season. Nevada’s water supply is in danger. Realistically California is not any bett...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Citizens Congress 2014
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Ostrander
In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political donations. That is, so long as the...

Bought by WFHB and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Missing Class
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wright
In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in twenty-five groups of social movement organizations. Included in her study are; t...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Xtra Tuf #6.75: Report From Uyak Bay
From: Erin Yanke
Caption: Bear from Uyak Bay, Credit: Alec Dunn
Moe Bowstern and Erin Yanke present a bear story from 1997 Alaska, with updates from the participants and observers, and from Alaska Fish and Game.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Quest for the Historical Jesus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard Carrier
Almost all experts agree that the Jesus of the Bible is a cmoposite of myth, legend, and some historical evidence. So what can we know of the rel J...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Lochbaum, Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists
The nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 should provide the United States with lessons learned, however, the carefully nurtured tale that technology w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Age of Radiance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Craig Nelson
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Behavioral biologist Karen Pryor, the scientist who brings out the best in dogs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
Karen's latest book is “Reaching the Animal Mind.” Having started out as the world’s foremost dolphin trainer, Pryor is responsible for developing ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Weather Anomalies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: National Resources Defense Council
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jerry Lembcke
The end of the First Gulf War saw a vast increase in the number of combat soldiers filing claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the past ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Glitter Crimes
From: Trevor Hultner
Piece image
Two environmental activists were arrested in Oklahoma City last year on charges of simulating a terrorist attack. Originally produced for Radio Dis...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:57
Author George Saunders, Master of the Short Story
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Home Sweet Adventures
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Lynne & Tim Martin
In 2011, the Martin’s sold their home in Central California’s wine country, gave away the furniture, and stuffed their art, clothes and small treas...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 23:51
In Bed With Wall Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Doyle
The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight in t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 11 - Filmmaker Terence Davies Interview
From: Andy Moore
Series: Andy's Treasure Trove
Piece image
Andy Moore's interview with British actor, writer and director Terence Davies. Andy talks to Davies about the 1992 film The Long Day Closes, a beau...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 37:10

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones