PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Radio Curious visits with journalist and satirist, Paul Krassner, author of his newly revised autobiography, “Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined N...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Pigeon racers across New England get out their lawn chairs and wait for their birds. The flocks are released 150 miles away from home. The pigeons ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
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The second show featuring stories from the Greatest Generation. Alma Hahn prays for deliverance from a snake-handling church service, a man speaks ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Encounter strange characters with Ann Bittick, Mary Beck, and Sheila Keever. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
Caption: Sunday Father's Day Supper, Credit: Walter Murch
How do women share and care for each other through their ages.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 13:43
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Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:46
Caption: Daevid Allen of Gong
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For a group of retired women in Maine, a garden grows more than just plants.

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 2
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The story of neon, element 10.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:27
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"I'm going to my J-O-Y, not my J-O-B."

  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:35
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If blooper tape could talk...

  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 03:13
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The kangaroo is her favored animal for possible reincarnation.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: :59
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A recounting of a partly imagined, partly remembered cinematic thriller.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: :41
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A recounting of an imagined classic Western.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
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Three unrelated subjects connected by a musical theme.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:46
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A lighthearted story about children playing with fireworks disrupting an event

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:52
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A bombastic but friendly, fictional history of dinosaurs.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:28
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An amusing, pseudo-fact-based monologue in the types and habits of snakes strays far from reality

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:35
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A surreal guitar lesson that is all over the map, with a sampling of guitar sounds to punctuate.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:07
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A short conversation with a grandson about TV.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :54
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A recounting of an imagined sci-fi/pre-historic movie.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
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A tale of a happy childhood, thinking like a cowboy and making inventions.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:50