PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 13:22
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...
- Added: Dec 25, 2012
- Length: :00
In celebrating Hanukkah Jews tell the story of sanctified oil that miraculously burned for eight days. In this humorous piece I retell the story of...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 1
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 42:38
This week our writers take us back to one of their most embarrassing moments. Stories by Mike Noland, Anne Perry, and Jimmie Meese Moomaw. True sto...
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 20:30
- Purchases: 1
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 1
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...
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- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
This week, our stories are all about the power of friendship. Stories by George McLeod, Pat Gillum, and Susan Elder. True stories told by the South...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 08:38
- Purchases: 2
On this week's show, our writers all grapple with expectations of others or themselves. Stories by Martin Ferguson, Anne Owings Wilson, and Richard...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In this week's show, our stories are all about lending a helping hand. Stories by Warren Kuhn, Jr., Nancy Louise Baxter, and Renie Prentice Rule. T...
- Added: Sep 22, 2012
- Length: 29:00
The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 5
This week our writers show us the not-so-pretty world of bullies and those being bullied. Stories by Angela Gattin, Wyatt Jones, and J.W. Taylor. T...
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week, our storytellers spill the beans on some very interesting family secrets. Stories by Anne Nieto, Robbin Ridgell, and Arthur Paul Bowen. ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Chef Miles James is featured on our Tin Roof Project #20, a monthly special series where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to lif...
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
When we bought our dream fixer-up home on Gilman Terrace, my husband and I knew that it came with sad past--but we weren’t prepared, when we unlock...
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- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 02:59
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Abbie Catherine Waters
was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
Manohar, from Agra, and Vera, from Sao Paulo, meet on a mysterious bus when a lady falls on M. The rest is slight distrust and love.
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- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 09:30
- Purchases: 1
Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 12:16
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 57:44
- Added: Dec 14, 2011
- Length: 14:30
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