PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing

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Caption: Chris Carley, Forensic Architect
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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The birth of managed care was surrounded by sounds called Click and Clack coming from an AM car radio.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Custer's last flag sold at auction for 2.2 million

  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: :26
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
On December 14, 1911, an expedition team led by Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. Listen in on this historic moment in today...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
In May of 1776, George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross visited seamstress Betsy Ross to talk to her about a new flag for the United State...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
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An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: 420 Event
Three days late and a dollar short isn’t that unusual for the stoner lifestyle. Vying for a legalized status in the all American tradition of a sit...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Studs Terkel and Chicago

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:24
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David visits Boston and rewrites some history.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
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Live Radio Comedy

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 31:42
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A move to deny Holocaust deniers.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:58
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "arcade"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:31
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "pedigree"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:32
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The story behind the word "assassin"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:50

  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fun, candid interview with established artist Tony Tasset

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 57:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Even after 40 years in the business, Mark Shields still believes there is good to be found in politics.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: PRX default Piece image
humorous true story from an Irishman's memories of a "charm cure"

  • Added: Mar 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:13
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A commentary on today's dreadfully tacky Major League Baseball uniforms.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:33
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visitor Centers Replace Museums. Discuss.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4