PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

312 results


AMOS 17.014: The Movie Doesn't Stink, but the Audience Does, 1/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Movie Doesn't Stink, but the Audience Does

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
2016 IgNobel prizes awarded
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Piece image
The IgNobels are awarded every year at Harvard University for research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. WTIP's Mike Reeves cha...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 13:54
StoryCorps: John Matlock and Carol Matlock
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Piece image
John and Carol met in 1964 when a computer dating service matched them up. This December, they will have been married for 52 years.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 223: Jimmy Fingerbutton and the Perpetual Motion Machine
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
Piece image
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 11:38
Audio Speed Tour - GLOBE 2016 Expo (podcast)
From: Denis Du Bois
Piece image
Denis Du Bois takes listeners on a 10-minute tour of energy technologies shown at the the Innovation Expo at the GLOBE 2016 Environmental Conference

  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
Episode 14 - Out of My Mind
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Fifth grade readers at St. Lucy Catholic School in Long Beach, California: : Grace, Giovanni, Vincent, Xavier, Alana, Zeus, Ethan, Eliyah, Samantha, and Zachary.
Melody loves words, but she can't speak or write or even walk across a room. Until a new computer opens up her life. Students from St. Lucy School ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 19:48
Danny Barnes Interview (On Winning the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo & Bluegrass)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Danny Barnes with Bazouki, Credit: Official Press Photo
Danny Barnes recently won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. The innovative musician fuses electronics and folk instrum...

Bought by Prairie Public, KRPS, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:56:04
  • Purchases: 3
No Flush, No Fuss
From: Devika Bakshi
Piece image
A visit to a very special toilet.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
It's Thin, It's Plastic, It's Back: Flexi Discs Find New Fans
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: "In the metal community, there's a fascination with the tangible aspect of things," says Albert Mudrian, editor of metal magazine Decibel., Credit: Bruno Guerreiro /Courtesy of Decibel
In the digital era, brick-and-mortar record stores' stock in trade has increasingly become vinyl sales. But within that niche of an increasingly fr...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
36 Tyler & Janelle: Love, America Online Style
From: The Mortified Podcast
Piece image
Saved AOL chats from the 90s of Tyler, a self-professed nerd and Janelle, his high school crush. Together, they re-hash them, in all their comedic...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 18, 2015
  • Length: 21:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Job
From: The Truth
Piece image
Life in the Age of Leisure

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KALW, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 4
Ray Bradbury on Madmen
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Piece image
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
E02 / Capturing Pets
From: Sarah Hoyles
Series: Pet Sounds
Caption: Mike O'Neill & Fruitjack, Credit: Stephanie Clattenburg
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.

Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 3
Hum...
From: Terrascope Radio
Piece image
A short, evocative audio postcard made while visiting power-generation facilities in northern California.

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:22
Indoor Marijuana and Electric Power Reality
From: Cannabis Radio News
Piece image
In the Oregon State Legislature, since the beginning of the 2015 session, the Joint Committee on Implementing Measure 91 has held a series of infor...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 05:42
Youth Radio: How Some Teens Text 4 Free
From: WUNC
Series: WUNC Youth Radio
Caption: Jamayah Parrish conducting an interview outside the WUNC Studios in Durham, Credit: Carol Jackson
Jamayah Parrish is a rising senior at Northern High School in Durham. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, she reports on teens who have found...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Countin' Spondoolies
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: Paolo Feraboli and a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 made with carbon fiber from his lab at the University of Washington., Credit: Paul Kane
"Car on, radio off, and paddle shift ready to go, okay, lets go!"

  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:43
Show #12: Txt the v0t3
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
Piece image
Barack Obama plans to send his VP choice via text message to supporters. But is it possible to text something meaningful? Kat and Kaitie seek to a...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
Show #10: Out of this World
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
Piece image
What's in a name? As Kat Beame find out, everything. She talks to Goodspaceguy Nelson, an eccentric candidate running for Congress from Washington....

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:19
Reinventing 'DIY' on Cape Cod
From: Phoebe Flanigan
Piece image
Doug Butler is something of a Renaissance man: he’s an inventor, a tailor, an engineer. And whether he’s imagining gadgets from the future or recon...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:50
Behind The Thread 19
From: Russell Jowell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Episode 19 of Behind The Thread, we go inside the 7-year energy crisis that has beleaguered Pakistan's vital textile industry and see what is be...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 46:30
The Chicken Whisperer
From: Andrew Davis
Series: Claim Your Fame
Caption: Andy Schneider hosted a lecture and book signing of "The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens" on Sunday at Tractor Supply Co. Schneider is the host of an internet radio show called "Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer" and the editor-in-, Credit: Katie Bell, the Missourian
Andy Schneider IS the Chicken Whisperer. He doesn't profess to talk to chickens, but he does know everything you need to raise backyard poultry AND...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Sho: Episode 27 (Molly Herron/Molly Thompson)
From: Chris McGovern
Series: The Glass Sho
Piece image
Molly Herron discusses New Music For New Instruments; Molly Thompson talks about her program featuring music from her song cycles at Spectrum.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:17:04
Asteroid miners prepare to harvest outer space
From: Audrey Quinn
Caption: Rick Tumlinson of Deep Space Industries and Dr. Glenn Lightsey discuss future missions at the Texas Spacecraft Lab, Credit: Audrey Quinn
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 4