PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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In the summer of 1901, San Francisco’s mayor, James D. Phelan, hiked up to an oak tree near the north bank of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite’s Hetc...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 14:02
Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: :53
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
One of the joys of baseball is listening to games on the radio. There’s the sound of the crowd, the crack of the bat, the 7th inning stretch … all ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 10:08
We all have our secret talents— like that poem you memorized in high school, or your ability to burp the alphabet. This podcast explores three extr...
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 26:34
Frank “the Bear” Abramovitz lost his wife to cancer. That’s when he took over her business, and became a bounty hunter.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 10:21
A micronation that aimed to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, turns against its founding father.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
The story about the ring-catching game, played at the Flying Horses carousel on Martha's Vineyard, and my search for the greatest ring-catcher of a...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 3
After accidentally joining a traveling circus, writer Jonathan Argyle recounts his discovery of the meaning of the word "home" from the point of vi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 11:19
- Purchases: 1
Have some chuckles as Amy Poehler reads from her new book, Yes Please. Another example of our daily 100-second compelling readings you don't want y...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:40
On the corner of 14th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, there's a strip mall with a mini-mart, a laundromat, and then there is Sa...
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 15:02
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 1
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 50:59
- Purchases: 2
An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 1
Hosted by Dave Seastrom, Pam Raider, Vera Grubbs, Rick Fettig & Jeff Foster.
First aired Sunday, November 2, 2014 at 9 AM on WFHB
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 59:01
For Bryce Jacobson and DaeDae Williams, reflection comes naturally. But both have a complicated relationship with their quiet time. On today's show...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:40
The Uncommon Core is a series that examines unusual college courses being taught in schools across the United States. In this episode, a professor ...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 2
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 1
The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...
Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio
- Added: Nov 09, 2014
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 3
Decker Middle School’s (Austin, TX) fifth annual Fright Night is a monumental night of scares produced by 7th and 8th graders in the AVID program. ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 14:15
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and GraceRadio
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 2
