PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 28:06
- Purchases: 1
Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 27:41
- Purchases: 1
In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...
Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 27:27
- Purchases: 2
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 09:11
