PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 24:24
A hundred years before Frank Kapra ever dreamed up a wonderful life, Charles Dickens had already penned the seminal Christmas classic. For the past...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Every year, at the Church of the Redeemer in Mechanicsville, Virginia, people exhibit exhibit hundred of Nativities from all over the world. And ea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 27:00
Fisher Neal was a struggling actor in New York City. So he turned to his old hunting skills for a side job extremely off-Broadway.
Bought by KRZA, Boise State Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 13:37
- Purchases: 3
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 26:58
Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin interviews Texas singer/songwriter Terri Hendrix. This is part 2 of a 2 part interview.
- Added: Oct 18, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Author Steve Bergsman talks about his new book, I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public, KMUW, GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio and more
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 8
Jeff Osgood and his friend Anthony just wanted to go on a winter hiking trip in the Adirondack Wilderness in upstate New York. But after a series o...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 21:20
- Purchases: 1
Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 2
Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat were nearly finished with the most ambitious trip of their lives, a 4000-mile trek across the Yukon and Ala...
Bought by KRZA and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
Curt Meyer was looking for adventure, so he took a job aboard a Japanese fishing trawler on the Bering Sea. But when a storm hit, the lack of a sha...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 16:29
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
Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
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
Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:49
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Musician Connie Jo Kirk uses food to share her legacy and love.
This story was produced by Elizabeth Maldonado, Taylor Prewitt, and Ezra McPherson,...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
From Korean and Italian Business to Business importer to a local scarf designer Tom kicks off the season with a fun informal walkabout around the C...
- Added: Jul 13, 2019
- Length: 01:06:34
Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho paddled thousands of miles in a canoe from Minneapolis to the shores of the Hudson Bay. The journey tested their physi...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 21:10
- Purchases: 2
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