PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Meet the "thinking man's conceptual artist"
From: KALW
Caption: Conceptual artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats will take you on a trip to outer space – so to speak, Credit: Photo by Jen Dessinger
Jonathon Keats is a writer, a philosopher, and an artist – a conceptual artist, who plays with people’s sense of time, money, and yes, space. Those...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:36
StoryCorps: Mort Segal and Joan Feldman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Exit 28: White Lightning
From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Road 2 Shambala
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Brooklyn rockers The Bottom Dollars visit Hootenanny Studios and grace us with their jams, as well as the ragtag circumstances that brought them to...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 45:24
The Carnivore’s License
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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A Simple Solution to the Ethical Regulation of Slaughter

  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
Running with Broomsticks
From: Matt Purdy
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A profile of the burgeoning sport of quidditch, the fictional game adapted to real-life from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Penis Graffiti of San Marin
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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On Apparitions and Male Members in Suburbia

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
Bare As You Dare!
From: Vaska Trajkovska
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Every year, in cities across the world, cyclists throw off their clothes and ride naked as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - a global protest mov...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
Finding the Muse
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Jazz Fest 2011
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At last weekend's 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lauren Peterson spoke with a member of the Muses, an all-female...

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
Ruth Shumway's American Milking Shorthorns
From: Kreg Ettenger
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this piece, Vermont dairy farmer Ruth Shumway lists some of her dairy cows by name. The interview for this piece was conducted as part of the Ve...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
AWKward...!
From: City High Radio
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City High School junior Makele asks people, what makes something awkward? What IS awkward? And the answers she gets are, well, kind of awkward.

  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:57
The arrival of spring
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Old man winter seems to have the last say on the arrival of spring.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:34
below
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A group of ordinary people ponder a dairy question.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:33
Trap happy
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Brian Blauser figures out a way to get rid of the raccoons raiding his bird feeders.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
'Til Death Do Us Part
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/16/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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FOUR ARE NEEDED...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
All You Need is (Gum On) a Wall
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
Hot dog! It's the Wiener Nationals
From: KALW
Caption: Flickr photo by Arlette. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arlette/4712343729/
This story has all the excitement of a day at the races: ladies in fancy hats, frazzled handlers, strutting owners, and surly gamblers. But the ani...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas With Grandma
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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With Grandma, things start bad and get worse.

Bought by KTXK, KUER, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
The New Pleasant Revolution
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2007 Third Coast ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
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A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2007 Third Coast ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
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Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
On Walden
From: Katie Hargrave
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When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 1
Fuzzy Bunny tickles your happy spot
From: Fuzzy Bunny Radio
Series: The Fuzzy Bunny Cuddle Time Hour
Caption: www.fuzzybunnyradio.com, Credit: Fuzzy Bunny Radio
Short days, long nights, cold weather and cabin fever will soon be over. Spring is just around the corner and to get you ready, Dirk is gonna play ...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 01:56:08
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Go Far...
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
Series: RTE Documentary On One
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The story of two boys who, in 1985, instead of going in for their dinner, decided to go on a little journey....

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Mar 05, 2011
  • Length: 39:01
  • Purchases: 3
Fuzzy Bunny: Meh
From: Fuzzy Bunny Radio
Series: The Fuzzy Bunny Cuddle Time Hour
Caption: www.fuzzybunnyradio.com, Credit: Fuzzy Bunny Radio
A two hour, weekly theme based, music and discussion show. Every week, hosts Dirk Flytrap and The Doctor pick a theme or topic and explore it throu...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:59:45
  • Purchases: 1

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