PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 26:58
Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...
Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 18
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
Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 27:50
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 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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
An immigrant's dream in Kansas City.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 19:59
A young American woman goes with her husband to inspect his business in Guatemala when local guerrilla insurgents storm the house they're staying a...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 13:29
Will Ted, an 82-year-old man keep his license -- or will be be stuck in his suburban home with nothing to do and nowhere to go? The subject is also...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 21, 2012
- Length: 11:46
- Purchases: 1
This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
One night, Elizabeth woke to a voice in her head. She tried to ignore it, but it wouldn't go away. Elizabeth shares how a series of doctors, a long...
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 14:52
- Purchases: 3
In the late 1990s, crack environmental consultant Don Gamble checked out of his comfortable east coast professional life...and disappeared. Ten yea...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 02, 2011
- Length: 21:42
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 03, 2010
- Length: 21:59
- Purchases: 1
A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 28, 2010
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 3
Skydiving can go wrong, terribly wrong, and that can even happen when the parachute opens. This piece chronicles the author's dive on assignment fo...
- Added: May 10, 2005
- Length: 21:55