PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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Elisheva and Amaris,
mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 26:51
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: 01:01:02
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 17:28
- Purchases: 1
An incredible story of a cancer survivor that goes on to do the impossible.
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 34:49
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 30:04
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...
Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 3
What do you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you l...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 40:52
Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 44:14
In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But whi...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 24:53
- Purchases: 1
Come with us as we deconstruct popular understandings of the death penalty through the stories of lives caught up in the web of state-sponsored kil...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in r...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 25:13
- Purchases: 1
Looking at how video games are being used by game developers and researchers in exploring mental illnesses.
- Added: May 10, 2015
- Length: 26:12
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
Israel Story's Valentine's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching love affair you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KUER, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 17:38
Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sac...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 4
What is it like to be homeless in the city that never sleeps? Reporter Kristie Brigandi takes us to lower Manhattan, and introduces us to some of t...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 09:17
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:12
Feeling depressed and alone in Europe and with family problems at home, Darlene thinks the solution is to visit a drug house in Amsterdam. But some...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 05:06
