PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Susan J. Mannino
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:53
Frank Guptill written and presented by Clark Moore
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:41
He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 26:34
Steve Moore is a slight man, drawn somewhat by the disease he lives with. I’d put him at about 140 pounds. But that might be a little much. Steve’s...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 26:08
Think about something you've spent your whole life wanting to do. Now try to think about what's kept you from doing it. What comes to mind? For...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 10:34
- Purchases: 2
Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 4
Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Friday the Thirteenth, Blair Witch. It seems the woods make a great backdrop for scary stories, but why?...
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 21:48
- Purchases: 2
In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 02:53
In 2015 about 2,700 of the 50,000 people who applied will receive a moose permit in Maine and if you’re one of the lucky ones who has waited 20 yea...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 1
When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Need relief from all the juvenile antics of campaign season? From PRX's Radiotopia, "MORTIFIED'S TOTALLY JUVENILE ELECTION SPECIAL" is your antidot...
Bought by KPIK-LP, WUTC, KJZZ, Troy Public Radio, KALW and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 26
Philip Armand explores a mysterious black dot on his nose and his parents buy him a used motorcycle.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 08:06
I am discovering not sports but the power of sports as a social glue, to bring a city together.
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
People have been giving each other “the finger” since Ancient Greece. The first documented use is said to be a photograph from 1886 in which the pi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KALW
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 15:58
- Purchases: 2
It was supposed to be a leisurely float down the Snake River. But when they lost their guide, a group of tourists got more than they bargained for.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 16:22
- Purchases: 1
Being a roofer was never sold to Philip Armand as a safe profession. When he nearly falls to his death, he is left thinking about his childhood di...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 04:19
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
Champion dog musher Brent Sass gets sprayed in the face with bear spray and then nearly eaten by a bear and Bill Schnabel tries to raise pigs but c...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Three amazing true stories from Alaska about a heartwarming killer whale encounter, surviving a flash flood, and a Jewish girl from New Jersey movi...
Bought by American Voices, WJCT, KMXT, and KHNS
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 31:31
- Purchases: 4
As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2016
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
This special episode of Mortified features the story of a closeted teenager who escapes the bullies at school and retreats into his bedroom where h...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 34:43
When we’re kids, we have ideas of what we want to be when we grow up — movie star, doctor, astronaut. But what if we dream of being like Butch Cass...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 21:05
