PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:06
Mo Beck was a professional climber who regularly won gold in competitions. But when she joined a team on a long expedition in the remote Cirque of ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 21:51
- Purchases: 3
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29
“Bearded Ladies”
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Paleobotanist Ellen Currano noticed a lack of other women in her field. So she...
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 4
Have some chuckles as Amy Poehler reads from her new book, Yes Please. Another example of our daily 100-second compelling readings you don't want y...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
Amy Boortz bought a full-size school in north Georgia to live in with her family. They turned classrooms into bedrooms, and life was alright for a ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
Producer Rebecca Lavoie interviews a well-known trust and estates attorney about the inheritence rights of frozen embryos and other genetic material.
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 06:42
Community member Sally Shepard fights the odds and her health to launch a successful parade in Frogtown, St. Paul.
- Added: Nov 07, 2010
- Length: 05:11
A story of two friends who are amateur home haunters from Michigan
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 1
Single commuters use mass transit for mass flirting
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
Meet the ladies who won the bygone "Miss Subways" contest that ran from 1941 to 1976
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 03:36