PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
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 one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
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
The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:54
The legendary Mellotron story from the team who carry on the work that started in the 60s with Streetly Electronics in the UK.
- Added: Oct 24, 2019
- Length: 34:17
There is nothing Richard “Racehorse” Haynes wouldn’t do to win a case. He once held a cattle prod against his skin. He cross examined an empty chai...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 27:54
- Purchases: 1
Mark Roberts has attended almost every major sporting event in the world. And he’s been escorted off the field almost every time.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:20
In this last episode of Rachel’s series called “Outlooks", she asks kids ages 5-18 a simple, yet thought-provoking question. For students, parents,...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 03:49
One woman is running a very unusual court of justice in a small Indian village where she uses folk tales, religious stories and her own common sens...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WJAB, WBEZ, and KWCW
- Added: Oct 26, 2006
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 5
Two minutes with Vincent van Rhyn, a Christmas tree seller in Brooklyn, NY.
Bought by WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2005
- Length: 02:48
- Purchases: 9
