PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...
Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more
- Added: Jan 10, 2015
- Length: 08:23
- Purchases: 6
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Students explore Martin Middle School urban legend Emily. Asking classmates and staff they get some pretty surprising answers as to who she was and...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 05:40
How a cat travels from Texas to North Carolina to the Great Beyond. And then maybe back to North Carolina.
- Added: Nov 26, 2014
- Length: 13:06
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Nicolas interviews his dad while making spaghetti, who emphasizes how important it is to know how to cook-especially when you are single, and/or wh...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 03:55
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Cousins Juliana & Jacob explore hunting in this piece. Hunting seems to be a family tradition-stemming from their granddad who killed goats on his ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 07:52
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
Bobby and Martini podcast from Union, NJ, at the studio of New York City-based artist, Ocean Clark, whose original paintings and prints of pop cult...
- Added: Apr 05, 2014
- Length: 30:25
Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 35:31
By day, Alberto Denis is a quiet, unassuming man who dances professionally and works with computers. By night, he transforms into his alter-ego, Go...
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 04:28
Bobby speaks, on location, from Columbus Circle (the literal epicenter of New York City) with Nicole Raymondi, creator of Quotiful, an iPhone app, ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2013
- Length: 36:58
A show about songs and stories about songs. There is brave singing. There is blood and guitar solos. It’s an hour of music you’re sure to love and ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 30:40
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Gil Riegler, of the Oasis Camel Dairy, discusses training his camels for milking and public appearances
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 05:45
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
Hear from three people who do a media fast to take back control of their lives from their smartphones, Internet, and Social Media.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 07:12
The story of the late Dr. Robert Baker, famous food scientist at Cornell, who invented the chicken nugget.
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 21:53
Actor / writer / composer David Ingber has created musicals about Zombies, and Fantasy Football, an ESPN web series, and several screenplays. He ch...
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 58:04
In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and in...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 16, 2011
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 2
Every year, in cities across the world, cyclists throw off their clothes and ride naked as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - a global protest mov...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 18:13
- Purchases: 1
Artist WOLF SENATUS describes participation in Little Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Mural.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 03:25
Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie af...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
