PRX - Pieces for Tone: Dark

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

89 results


On A Passing Frontier
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A program containing 3 short stories of the old west by Frank Bird Linderman in which the rough dry humor of the cowpuncher is evident.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:11
Taking Mom to the Movies
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
Caption: Dave White
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.

Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 3
The Hypnotist
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young man has eyes which engage those of others. He is a natural hypnotist and a natural sociopath.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2012
  • Length: 10:19
Lambs to the Slaughter - Radcliffe Royds
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
Piece image
A true story told live in London. Radcliffe lost his home, his job and his wife in 24 hours. An uplifting tale on drug addiction and redemption, fr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
A Scary Home Companion
From: Doug Gordon
Piece image
What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Dandelion
From: Lisa Tuininga
Piece image
When I was growing up, my mom went through a phase where she got rid of several of my pets without asking me.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:55
Spooky Chills
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Piece image
A little Late Halloween piece By Anh Le

  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 02:35
My Funeral, Your Trial
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
Piece image
Unreasonable demands from BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Bought by WCBE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
How I Learned To Tell Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Notes From the Huntley Project
Piece image
The inability to tell time has forced six-year-old Jaybird to become an outlaw and to face a darkness that did not exist to him before now.

Bought by KMXT, KUT, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2010
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 3
Certain Death Cola
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What if all the bad stuff about drinking cola were spelled out on the label under the image of a skull?

  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 14:50
Jack And The Bad Stock
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satire on the scandals of a few years ago when there was a lot of fiction on the books of corporations. It is based on Jack And The Beans...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Power Of Negative Thinking
From: WFMU
Series: Too Much Information
Piece image
Barbara Ehrenreich says NO WAY to "Smile or Die", Peter Choyce tries out Couchsurfing, Zig Ziglar Tweets, Jeet Heer 'splains Little Orphan Annie, H...

Bought by KALW, WRIR, KXOT Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
Aaron Kelly's Bones
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People
Caption: Imakhu, from her show, "Wednesday's African Child"
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...

Bought by KUT and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Space Ash (or Sending your ashes into space)
From: Cooper St. James
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For the man or women that HAD everything...send your ashes into space when you die. I found a company that can handle this service for you.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 1
2 Minute Film Noir
From: ZBS FOUNDATION
Piece image
A compilation of a bunch of short 2 Minute Film Noir audio stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 53:03
  • Purchases: 3
Inside the Glore
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: A Tranquilizer Chair inside the Glore
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 13:48
  • Purchases: 6
Jokes Have I Known
From: Matt Gajewski
Piece image
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi step into a bar . . .

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 45:39
Existence as having to Listen to Twenty Million Bottles of Beer on the Wall
From: Joel Brussell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Isn't this what life is

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:26
Calling Purgatory
From: Warren Black
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Getting stuck on hold can feel like hell.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2007
  • Length: 01:29
The Trap
From: David Maxon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rumination on mouse eradication.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
"The Man I Want to Bury Me" a day in the life of my friend the gravedigger
From: Joel Brussell
Piece image
A day in the life of Kirk a friend who is a gravedigger

  • Added: Apr 15, 2007
  • Length: 08:08
Offramp - Answering Machine Song
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A darkly comic noir love story set to song.

Bought by WYBC


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Offramp - Deplorable Manners
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - Broadcast Episodes
Piece image
Inventive improvisations – absurdist and thoughtful humor and music. Pleasantly surreal.

Bought by KWMR and The Prairie Star


  • Added: Feb 11, 2007
  • Length: 25:42
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Over Faulconbridge Episode 1
From: Victor Spiegel
Series: Full Moon Over Faulconbridge
Piece image
Mysteries and Murder in the Blue Mountains of Australia

  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 10:00
Do You Like the Curtains?
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: The Best of Queen Mother Imakhu
Piece image
Queen Mother Imakhu gives homage to African American southern "hant" tales in this original, humorous, and eerie rendition of a true urban story.

Bought by KUT, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3