PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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A scientist recounts the harrowing quest for life beneath the ice
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 25:11
When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 29:02
I was reporting on India’s 2014 general election which would bring Narendra Modi to power a year ago.
Sultan, though that’s not his real name, was...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Author Albert Podell reads from his book, Around The World In 50 years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth. In this passage, Albert is visiting...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:40
On the corner of 14th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, there's a strip mall with a mini-mart, a laundromat, and then there is Sa...
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 15:02
Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City can reasonably expect to bump into a missionary or two. Mishy Harman and Nava Winkler introduce us to a couple of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:18
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
As a cadet in the Israeli Army, he always did things by the book, but when Yochai Maital falls in love with a girl who's about to leave the country...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 14:09
- Purchases: 1
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
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
The vegan movement is on the rise, but it's a lot more than just a few new vegan cafes in Israel. 269 is a vegan radical activist group that's gain...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:16
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
An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
Israel Story's Valentine's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching love affair you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KUER, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:40
On the next all-NEW Snap, we pull a rabbit out of our hat. From PRX and NPR, we proudly present "Presto!"
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 53:57
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
Snap 418 "Chain of Command" - On the next Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR, "Chain of Command." Amazing stories about those on the bottom talking t...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 53:57
When people look at your ID they think they know who they're dealing with. But on the next all-NEW Snap Judgment... we throw them for a loop. From ...
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 53:57
On an all-NEW Snap, what happens when the sky falls down... when your brilliant plan breaks apart? It's not over. It's never over. From PRX and NPR...
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 53:57
It's that moment where everything you count on... disappears. On the next Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR, "Blackout".
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:57
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
