PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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Abigail Spanberger swore an oath at age twenty-four “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and d...
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 21:33
Some things are temporary.
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
An artesanal fisherman from a small Catalan village ends up shaping EU fishing law.
- Added: Jan 11, 2020
- Length: 26:13
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 21:11
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 19:49
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 27:48
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 2
Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 29:48
- Purchases: 1
America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 1
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 21:25
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
As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial crisis, Central Appalachia and much of rural America may be hard hit by pending closures of post offices...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 21:19
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
A California lesbian couple has decided to leave the U.S. to try to find acceptance.
Bought by WGDR, KRCB 104.9, WBEZ, and KVMR
- Added: Feb 26, 2005
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 4
