PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 18:17
A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 41:20
For the past several months I have been covering the largest religious conversion the world has ever seen, Christianity in China. It is a story tha...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 02:19
Gather round and listen to some traditions surrounding the Halloween celebration...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 02:33:18
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 52:54
On this episode of CLASSICAL DARK ARTS, we look at Satan’s cabal of classical composers, players and theorists — a sleeper cell run by Liszt, Pagan...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 23:51
Ever been to an Encuentro? You’ve just moved to rural Mexico with your husband and new baby. What would you do to fit in?
- Added: Sep 07, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 06:41
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 05:49
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 11:24
- Purchases: 1
Steve Moore learned about the nature of comedy at an early age. He refined his talents out in LA and just as his career was taking off he was diagn...
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 26:15
The story of how one rabbi got Coca Cola to become kosher
Bought by Prairie Public, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRCB 104.9, BSR Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 7
a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture
Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 07, 2008
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 5
Celebrating Chanukah in a dingy dorm lounge with an unlikely companion
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRCB 104.9, and WMPG
- Added: Feb 17, 2006
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 4
A Philosopher, a robot scientist and an historian talk about our obsession and fascination with the idea of creating mechanical life.
Bought by WFUV and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 26, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Sound-rich doc of man's search for mystery bird
Bought by The Nature Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis, BSR Radio, and WZBC
- Added: Nov 08, 2004
- Length: 30:14
- Purchases: 4
The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.
- Added: Nov 24, 2003
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 6
