PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing

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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Written by Savannah Spatafora Produced by Emma Lehman

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:03
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All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
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In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:52
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Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
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A postcard from an art space, which has taken over an old big box store.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard about westerns and western scores.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Our delightful emcee, Paul DuBray
This hour begins with a short history of the area, the “Return of the River Ranger,” a former local radio personality; children reading aloud to do...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 57:30
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A piece about the history of one of the most overlooked things, drag.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:02
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Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:18
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A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Echoes in Dust, Credit: Henrik Stromberg 2017
Artipoeus visits Swedish artist Henrik Stromberg's "Echoes in Dust" at Galerie Aplus in Berlin.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 20:00
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Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some ...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 10
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The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse – three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. Starti...

Bought by KSTK, KFCF FM, KMXT, KALH, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 12
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Tonight's show begins with the familiar sounds of Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra along with special musical guests Corey Carls...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, KSJE, WTIP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Graeme S. Mount, retired professor of history at Sudbury's Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, at his home in Sudbury, May 2015., Credit: Justin Bull
If the United States were embroiled in a third world war and the American public learned that Barack Obama were taking eight days off in the middle...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 3
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A girl who is really, really proud to be from Montana.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 13:52
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The full first episode of the new podcast Last Best Stories. It's Montana-made radio that's not technically on the radio.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:48
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Pickers and neighbors from the South, Minnesota that is, Pert Near Sandstone.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMSU, WRNC-LP, KALH, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Gypsy jazz from Berlin, Germany along with Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
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Tent Show Radio welcomes from Nashville, Tennessee, Grammy Award bluegrass Nominees Della Mae.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Minneapolis speed-grass band Pert Near Sandstone joins us for an evening on the Big Top Stage!

Bought by WRNC-LP, WDSE, Wisconsin Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 6