PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University introduces us to a celebrity piglet. Discovered in a Jerusalem home from the 8th century BCE, it challen...
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 08:46
In 2016, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated an international ivory-smuggling ring. It all began with a sea cucumber trader in Zanzibar.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 22:45
- 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
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
The year is 1959, and one in every two babies are dying in childbirth.
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 26:32
- Purchases: 1
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 3
A scientist recounts the harrowing quest for life beneath the ice
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 25:11
The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 17:18
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 2
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 1
Take a regular person and back that guy up against a wall...and there is no telling what he might do. From PRX and NPR, Snap proudly presents "Desp...
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 53:57
Ice up, son. On the next Snap Judgment it's about to get all black and blue. From PRX and NPR, we proudly present..."Striker"
- Added: Jul 10, 2014
- Length: 53:57
There are some teams that you are just born into. You don't get to decide. It is not up for discussion. Until one day... it is. On the next Snap J...
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 53:57
Sometimes the writing is on the wall. We all know the ending, but some people...didn't get the memo. An all-NEW Snap, from NPR and PRX, we proudly...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00