PRX - Pieces for Tone: Intriguing
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6 works, including TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45. Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler.
- Added: May 17, 2024
- Length: 57:01
We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:27
A public domain reading of Sappho's "Epigrams" set to public domain jazz from Pixabay.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 03:45
Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Chapter Nine: The Battle for the Liquor License
In spite of the raid on Studio 54 in December 1978, the club remained open and hotter than ever f...
- Added: Aug 06, 2022
- Length: 22:18
On the next episode of the show, storyteller Pippa White will tell us the tale of a woman who, faced with a long ocean voyage, makes kind of a stub...
Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 5
Tangos, folkloric chacarera music, and the famous Argentine myth about the girl who danced herself to death.
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Sep 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 44:17
Happiness - Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice is an Italian television personality, a member of the House of Savoy and the son and heir...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 03:32
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...
Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations
- Added: Jul 18, 2019
- Length: 52:58
- Purchases: 2
The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...
Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 23
Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She claimed to speak to the dead, and even produce p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
“The Falling Man”, Esquire’s most-read story of all time, is discussed by host David Brancaccio (APM's Marketplace Morning Report) and Esquire Writ...
Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 34:07
- Purchases: 3
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 51:30
When Anne, a young Canadian woman in the 1950’s, is told it’s not possible to study giraffe in the wilds of Africa because she’s a woman, she sets...
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 01:05:24
One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Some lovely pieces of music and some not-so-lovely pieces of history.
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 29:00
