PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing

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Ambush Theater
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: Ambush Exercise, Credit: Courtesy of Andrew Hiller
Citizens should be on the look-out. Shrubbery wearing striped stockings have been seen... well, STALKING citizens. For ten years now, from Rhode I...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Obelisk In The Sky/Obama In The House: D.C.'s Monumental Myths
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
Caption: Why is the WaMo three different colors?, Credit: Rebecca Sheir
Think you know why the White House flag is flying, and the Washington Monument is tri-colored? Then you might want to think again.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Burning Man and the Gift Economy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One of the most unusual economic structures in the world is the 'gift economy' at Burning Man. Larry Harvey, the festivals founders, tells us how ...

Bought by KSFR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 29, 2009
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 4
Scared
From: John Biewen
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A (very) short story of love and anxiety. A child grows to age 13 in three minutes while a father muses on parental fears.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 16
Movie Critics: Endangered Species?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mainstream media movie critics are being laid off. Consequences?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:01
Caribbean Carnival Comes Early to Southeast Queens
From: WNYC
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Carnival Music comes early in Queens

  • Added: Mar 10, 2008
  • Length: 06:34
Professor Mikey's Island Christmas
From: Mike Flanagan
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Really warm Christmas wishes in a mix of surf, reggae, and island tunes.

Bought by KDUR, KRPS, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KRPS, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2007
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 5
Unintended Detours Episode 4: Road/Trip
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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Stumbling and stranded, in one way or another, on the road.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 2
Lester and the Art of Mindfulness
From: Ted Magnuson
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A fun encounter with a former Budhist monk

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 10:48
Winter's coming...grab your salmon sleds!
From: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
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Alaskans will do anything when it's minus forty and dark all day...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2007
  • Length: 05:09
assassin - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "assassin"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
When your computer hates you.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Brits are developing a computer that reads your mood. Erg.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2006
  • Length: 02:37
Leave Daffy alone!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Warner Brothers messes with the classics. Stop them.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
Utah Murderball
From: KCPW Salt Lake City
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of Quad Rugby players in Utah.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 05:12
Over-Identified
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Identity theft: how can they steal us when we don't know who we are?

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
Jan On Jack
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Jan Kerouac delivering her own poem to Jack over his own poem 30 years previously.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 3
Miss Dumpy
From: jessica lockhart
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Recycling taken to the extreme, a beauty pagent at the town dump.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2005
  • Length: 04:06
Mustang Stevie
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do dead movie stars sell cars?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Metrology
From: Allan Coukell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A romp through the history of measurement standards.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
Tokyo "All Aboard" Melodies
From: Andy Raskin
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Melodies heard on Tokyo train platforms.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUT-HD, KTNA and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 7
Dead of Summer and other poems.
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: NYC, Credit: M. Van Halteren
2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and WMBR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 4
Art-O-Mat
From: Adam Allington
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Cigarette vending machines converted to sell art

Bought by PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX, and WHQR


  • Added: Jul 30, 2004
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4
Tupperware
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Tupperware. More than a way of storing leftovers in covered plastic bowls, for many it's a way of life.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KUOW, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2004
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 16