PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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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
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
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
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 28:06
- Purchases: 2
Audio essay bringing the current summer-long Market Basket situation back to the basics.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 04:34
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with one of Winona's finest who went from a career in public relations to an occupation in Law Enforcem...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 32:59
- Purchases: 1
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 3
Chris Cunningham fronts the Seattle band Ravenna Woods. He looks the part, too, with a lip ring, skinny jeans and facial hair. What he doesn't look...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Delmarva Public Media
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 10:42
- Purchases: 2
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
This is a rare insider story about a man who immigrated to this country at the age of 12, went to the grocery store and had an incident that would ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2013
- Length: 16:29
Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 18:57
An introduction to some of my illustrious colleagues from my days as a bellhop/valet/part-time restaurant host at the Hilton.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 15:12
One evening during the overnight shift at the Hilton, Sam inadvertently ruins a co-worker’s life.
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 12:25
One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 17:54
As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial crisis, Central Appalachia and much of rural America may be hard hit by pending closures of post offices...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 21:19
Sam is blindsided with an unfortunate realization on the Grand Central Parkway.
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 09:15
Sam makes a not-so-triumphant return to the Hilton, where an old nemesis rears its ugly head.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 08:49
An orange naugahyde sofa. A pay-phone. A river of chicken blood.
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 07:32
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
A complex set of circumstances results in Sam awakening at 4:30am on a frigid January morning for his first day as a New York City cab driver.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 1
A humorous reading of a looking-for-work ad posted by a copywriter on Craigslist in Atlanta.
Bought by WABE and Vocalo.org
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 6
The libraries of Los Angeles might shut down in a few years, unless the people of the city rally and write letters, demanding they stay open. Plans...
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 59:40
A segment of the population has been conditioned to believe that crime can be eliminated by more police, bigger jails and stiffer sentences
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: 01:14
- Purchases: 1
