PRX - Pieces for Tone: Personal
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If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 02:37
Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 4
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 09:24
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
An oral history account of the successful workers' sit-in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in December of 2008, the first Ameri...
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 21:57
- Purchases: 2
The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 25:12
- Purchases: 26
Former door-to-door Bible salesman Jim "The Rabbit" Baker, featured in the classic 1969 Maysles Brothers film Salesman, explains the secrets of his...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WYBC, KSUT, and Public Interactive
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 10:14
- Purchases: 5