PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 21:32
Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:05
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
If you look beyond the new restaurants, cafés and boutique shops, on Valencia Street there are hints of what gave this neighborhood the reputation ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 08:24
California seems to be getting it from both sides. The state is in a serious drought at the same time coastal areas are studying ways to avoid bein...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:46
For nearly a hundred years, Morse Code was the official language of international communication for ships in distress. Then, at the end of the twen...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of December (12/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped build a gospel music empire.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Mar 12, 2006
- Length: 07:08
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 11, 2006
- Length: 08:29
