PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 05:02
An ode to an Italian mountain, from Thomas van Neerbos.
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 04:40
From Bucharest, Romania, here’s Andreea Sirbu, she’s 18, just finished high school, and her story is about a conversation that made her realise -- ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 05:09
In the United States, the obituary article is reserved for the famous, to remember their greatest achievements and notable struggles.
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 30:47
Stories of relationships that have ended, and the things (the often slightly nutty things) that people do in the aftermath.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 01:11:19
Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City can reasonably expect to bump into a missionary or two. Mishy Harman and Nava Winkler introduce us to a couple of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
Noah Horak, a 29-year-old electrical engineer from Tofte, Minn., quit his job, sold his stuff, and set off on a round-the-world adventure on a moto...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, and KVSC
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 22:14
- Purchases: 3
Cuckoo Fayre Special: Punch and Judy Man, Marky Wild
Independent State of Cuckfield, Martin Ingebretson
Cuckfield Vintage Emporium, Darcy Shepher...
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 26:09
What if you were stuck at the border, having to answer probably *appropriate* questions? What if you maybe trusted the Canadian banking system to j...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 03:45
Cathy Byrd connects on Skype with independent curator/producer Sasha Dees to talk about the Open Ateliers residency program, Zuidoost Amsterdam and...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 11:02
This week the Global Guru learns how to negotiate land deals, family disputes, wedding arrangements, cattle sales and other deals in Timor Leste.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Shipping is a big business in Pakistan. With new paved highways offering a fast track to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, trucking is an importa...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 05:49
This week the Global Guru uncovers the rules behind Japanese baseball. Accidentally smack the matter with the ball? You better practice your bowing...
Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 4
This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 2
This week the Global Guru learns about the mural movement in Ajijic, Mexico, two generations after Diego Rivera's vision.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 2
This week the Global Guru wades through tourist kitsch to find authentic aboriginal boomerangs.
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 3
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
This week we go to Latin America where we learn what all bas reliefs have in common, and what that can tell us about our social order.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 07, 2010
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 06, 2008
- Length: 08:24
A young man wishes he were more cosmopolitan
- Added: Oct 01, 2007
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 2
