PRX - Pieces for Tone: Surprising

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

29 results


Crazy for Clarinets!
From: Wind & Rhythm
Piece image
On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we celebrate the Clarinet, a.k.a. the "Licorice Stick", the "Woody & Buzz", the "Very Fancy Recorder". Listen wit...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WBAA, WUAL, Delmarva Public Media, WKAR and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 15
WorldBridges_24-131_MichaelMarsolek
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: World Bridges
Piece image
Join Michael Marsolek for a musical trip around the globe.

Bought by KAMU and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:22
  • Purchases: 2
7/5: Jeff Bezos and the Infinite Bookstore
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
Piece image
Amazon, created in the Seattle garage of Jeff Bezos, was incorporated on 5th July, 1994. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain why Was...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:19
Black History Month -- Remember the Ladies
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It's Black History Month, and that means the gals along with the guys. Visit two women you probably never heard of who were "firsts" in their field...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:47
Milonga for the Pope
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Pope Francis
The story of Argentine Pope Francis's special affection for the Tango of his home country, featuring his favorite orchestras and singers.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.29_ Bike Highway
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is an extraordinary bike path in the Netherlands where you can ride your bike on a beautiful designate path for nearly 11 miles).

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:11
The Untold Story of Revolver Studios Bringing Sexy Back to St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
Piece image
Revolver Studio, the brainchild of local performing artist Scarlette Revolver, just celebrated its one year anniversary of providing a safe, positi...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 30:08
Confessions of a Movie Extra
From: Matt Hill
Series: The Modern Mann
Caption: Chay Allen, acting with Britney Spears
Dr Chay Allen is an art historian who paid his way through his phD by working as an extra on shows including 24 and Downton Abbey.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:54
Rock Star Phobias
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
We're gonna talk about phobias. Many musicians and actors have strange phobias. We will even discuss melophobia, the fear of music.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Donnie Dunagan and Dana Dunagan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Donnie (L) and Dana (R) Dunagan
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 6
Melton Barker, Itinerant Filmmaker
From: Michael May
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The 1930s is remembered as the golden age of Hollywood, when small towns had a palatial movie theaters, and stars like Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1
141026 No Classifications on Saturday Night Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Working out why I don't use identifiers for myself or the music in the first hour of the show.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:50:16
The Rise of Les Sapeurs - Renata Sago
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
Piece image
When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:44
"Seeker"
From: Eric Jones
Caption: The boat "Seeker"
Ted Box is building a huge wooden boat called "Seeker" in one of the busiest spots on Martha's Vineyard. After working steadily for two years, he's...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
DIY Music For Kids
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Piece image
Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
Peter Pan In Kensington Garden by James M. Barrie
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This short story of 4 chapters was where Barrie tried out some of the ideas that would be used in the play "Peter Pan". The main difference is that...

  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:43:57
Loving Charcoal
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Not my neighbor's hamster.
A woman and her hamster.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Man With the Long White Beard
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
Piece image
He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tit for Tat
From: jessica lockhart
Series: Watch Your Language
Piece image
Let the games begin, it's time for Watch Your Langauge

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:40
  • Purchases: 1
Brain Vitamin: The key to invisibility
From: KALW
Caption: Photo from lookmind.com (http://lookmind.com/illusions.php?id=1868&cat=3)
Invisibility – it’s the stuff of fantasy and Hollywood movies (we’re looking at you, Harry Potter), and now it’s a reality. Well, kind of. Read th...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
The Audiophiles: Finding music in the sounds of Antarctica
From: KALW
Caption: Local composer Cheryl Leonard recording the sound of Antarctica in 2009
When we imagine Antarctica, we often think of an empty place: big expanses of ice, almost no other people on the entire continent. It might even se...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
SFMOMA conservators turn back time
From: KALW
Caption: Paula de Cristofaro treating Matisse’s “Portrait of Sarah Stein” in the SFMOMA conservation lab., Credit: Photo courtesy of SFMOMA
Art conservators work behind the scenes at museums. Though they’re sometimes confused with curators, who acquire works for a collection, conservato...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: A tale of two dresses
From: KALW
Caption: Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson
Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson have been married for 22 years; their first ceremony occurred in 1988. But their same-sex marriage was not acce...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 4
Digging up the West Coast's first fraternity
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: Photograph of the first fraternity on the West Coast.
It turns out fraternities are not just popular in pop culture, but are as old as America itself. Dr Laurie Wilkie and Dr Grahaeme Hesp offer a hist...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1