PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Fruit brings Richard joy, especially papaya. But the fruit cup at Richard’s senior living residence leaves something to be desired. Richard must wo...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2021
  • Length: 10:16
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Will Rogers was a proud member of the Cherokee Nation

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
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Will Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
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The first hurricane remote from an indoor radio studio.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 2
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Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
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A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 5
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It's a fair question. Fun little voxpop by Sean Robb. Produced as part of an audio class at the University of Montana School of Journalism.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
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For some, education is a global debate involving scholarly theories and reform strategies; for others, it's something a little more...elementary. O...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:46
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This week the Global Guru explores why there are so many barbershops -- sometimes a dozen in a single block -- in Tanzania.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
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Rock and Roll. A term we all know well. But what does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where -- and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Sketch comedy from Clifford & Kidd

Bought by WUSM


  • Added: Jan 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1