PRX - Pieces for Format: Soft Feature
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 03:46
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:22
Minneapolis-based collage artist Zach Collins loves to collaborate. During the past three years he's put together two books showcasing his team spi...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:23
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Cafesjian's Carousel in Como Park celebrates its centennial this year. In 1914, Austin McFadden paid the Philadelphia Toboggan Company to build a c...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 06:27
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
A young Minneapolis historian—Stewart Van Cleeve —wrote “Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota.” He also created an iPhone and Android...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:02
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 29:00
The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, welcomes temporary residents, but for the first time this year, they are offering a month exclusively f...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
In 5 different countries there are audio tours available, which take you to places you don't want to go while getting you lost. And that's the point.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:29
The story of the church bells in England during WWII. (Note: This is the intro to episode 13: The Sounds of East London)
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Sandip Roy takes in the theater of Modi's first large scale political rally in New Delhi.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
Host Lede for Steve Moore
Steve Moore had hit his stride as a comedian back in the late 1980s. He was working all over Hollywood as a warm up comic...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 28:10
Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 15:46
