PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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Perhaps while driving down highway 61 you’ve noticed the dark steamboat gothic style home sitting on a hill looking over the Mississippi River. Wel...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 13:10
Everyone is told when they’re younger, that they have to be on this path, they have to go to school, that they have to go to college, that they hav...
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 4
In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 26
Love your child by being deliberately obtuse.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 31, 2010
- Length: 04:11
Is there a correlation between income and intelligence?
- Added: Jun 17, 2010
- Length: 01:43
When Nadine Warner and her life partner, Laurie, adopted a child it never occurred to them that they may one day find the Catholic school system to...
Bought by WBEZ, Vocalo.org, and WRIR
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 12:40
- Purchases: 3
Elsa Lankford's audio doc class went to Lexington Market. We interviewed a variety of food vendors and got their take on Baltimore history and cur...
- Added: May 15, 2010
- Length: 04:31
Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 07:30
Putting a blind man's tooth in his eye enables him to see.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 1
Don't spend the next 10 years paying off your college loans.
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 03:26
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 01:16
May we shed just one tear for the demise of the American hero?
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 01:43
KVSC Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack reports on the Library Day held at St. Cloud State University for middle school students as t...
- Added: Feb 10, 2010
- Length: 26:07
If you have never replaced the wax seal beneath your toilet, I suggest that you do.
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: :29
Last night there was a football game on television instead of the evening news.
- Added: Jan 10, 2010
- Length: :52
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."
- Added: Dec 23, 2009
- Length: 01:32
Eugene Washington took a huge leap of faith by quitting his job in order to devote his life to helping Montagnard refugees adjust to life in the US.
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 30:38
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 01:46
One of my friends saw Chase Whiteside’s Youtube piece called Sarah Palin Book Signing as “[e]vidence that our educational system has tanked.”
- Added: Dec 12, 2009
- Length: :33
There are people who scrape together and repackage scraps of tired old worn out wisdom, but when it’s encapsulated they call it an aphorism, becaus...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: :41
- Purchases: 1
21 college bound students created these 11 radio pieces covering a range of enviornmental issues as The Heinz Endowments Summer Internship program ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 38:37
This is a varied piece dealing in all aspects of the Native American. Children of the Montessori Elementary School in Kronberg nearby Frankfurt am ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2009
- Length: 29:58
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 1
A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: :46