PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006
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Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Take Me With You: Around The World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home
Have you ever made friends with someone from a place where you visited as a t...
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 32:22
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and politica...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 4
“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 12:33
- Purchases: 3
A humorous accounting of the history and recording of the New Orleans Mardi Gras standard Carnival Time
- Added: Jan 18, 2008
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 2
This new one-hour radio documentary goes behind the making of Ken Burns' latest film for PBS - THE WAR.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KLCC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNF and more
- Added: Sep 12, 2007
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
Never-before released interviews with the late Dick Latvala, the first official archivist for the Grateful Dead.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 03, 2007
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Singer/Songwriter Billy Bragg rewrites "The Internationale", Joyce Carol Oates spars with George Foreman, and Spalding Gray turns the tables on Joh...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WCPN, KERA, and WCQS
- Added: Feb 28, 2007
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 4