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
Life for students on Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island is different - starting with the morning commute to school.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WMUK, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WKSU and more
- Added: Feb 10, 2017
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 6
Put-In-Bay, on an island in Lake Erie, is a summer destination for vacationers and tourists. But when winter comes and ferry service to the mainlan...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 5
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
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
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. A dystopian novel.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
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
There are certain questions that get scientists really excited – discoveries that are big, tantalizing, and often, far out of reach. Even if they’r...
Bought by WDBM, WTJU, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 18, 2011
- Length: 08:40
- Purchases: 4
