PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
The World Pieces Expedition hops on the bus and takes a ride to Detroit. Host Jason Kladiva takes listeners on his bus journey but discovers the v...
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 06:49
A piece that explains an international student's perspective on American social media use, and the ways in which this has reduced the quality of fa...
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 05:57
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.
Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Kathryn Chesney
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Susan J. Mannino
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:53
Eliza Webb as written and performed by Lilian B. Moore
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:39
Emily Graves Webb as written and performed by Laurie Akin.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 11:40
John Webb as written and presented by Richard Caldwell
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 08:30
Mabel Webb Johnson Sims as written and presented by Kim Crow
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:14
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:01
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and presented by Linda Pupke
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:39
Archeologist Ripley Bullen written and presented by Ed Schmidt
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:42
Businesswoman Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Colleen Smale.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:09
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:49
What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 32:40
- Purchases: 1
A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 20:25
What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:37
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
How we change nature and nature changes us, from wildflower picking in Israel to ayahuasca retreats in Peru.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 54:33
- Purchases: 1
A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
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
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
For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00