PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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In My Body Odyssey’s (MBO) first episode, we meet Ultimate Mark – uber-competitive weekend warrior in Ultimate Disc: “If it hurts me but helps the ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 18:49
Recent studies have shown the therapeutic effects of running on depression. This, shouldn’t come as a surprise for people who’ve been blessed by it...
- Added: Mar 24, 2019
- Length: 08:28
Will Turner of Richmond, Virginia now holds the world record for the number of Ironman triathlons completed in a single calendar year—Sixty one. ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 27:16
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction. Will is the genuine article. He now holds the world ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 26:14
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction, He’s the genuine article. He now holds the world rec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2018
- Length: 15:04
This week on Art Beat, we visit with Dylan Overhouse, the director of Downhill Skateboarding which was part of the 2016 Frozen River Film Festival ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 09:33
The myths and legend surrounding AMC's oldest trail crew, the TFC, aka Trail F*cking Crew.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:00
On this special episode of Wish We Were Here: Tales and Investigations from the Shadows of America's Mountain, we worked with Nathan Ward at Grit a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Apr 18, 2016
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 1
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: 01:01:02
Join the team onThe Pine as they visit with Ted Ginn, Executive Director of the Ginn Academy.
- Added: Jun 27, 2015
- Length: 18:12
They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That's a question being asked in locker rooms the wo...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Four very different Crises appear at four very different scales in this episode, affecting a person, a species, a city, and a human body.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:24
- Purchases: 2
One day in 1994, Steve Davies lived the dream of every soccer fan. He was plucked from the crowd by Harry Redknapp, the manager of his favorite tea...
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 25:12
Since retiring as the original Philie Phanatic, Dave Raymond makes his living training professional mascot performers and creating new mascot ident...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 23:31
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The real life version of "Field Of Dreams" takes place in Alpine, Texas in the 1940s and 50s. This is a story about a man, his baseball field and ...
Bought by KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, KMXT, and KUT
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
A group of 4th and 5th graders prove themselves on the basketball court. On unicycles.
- Added: Jun 01, 2010
- Length: 22:46
- Purchases: 2
An ancient pastime explored in the lives, lore and literature of anglers.
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 12
Adam used to want to be just like his father...but not anymore
- Added: Nov 17, 2008
- Length: 02:31
The Life of a Bike Messenger
Bought by KUER, KUT, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2008
- Length: 09:03
- Purchases: 3
In the absence of govenrment in the rebuilding process organizations like operation blessing have stepped in to rebuild.
- Added: Jun 22, 2007
- Length: 05:59
Dave Kerpen keeps creating fame for himself- first as a vendor with an unusual flare, then on TV, and now with an outrageous wedding
- Added: Sep 28, 2006
- Length: 06:53
Discovering the the dangerous trials and tribulations of the modern knife thrower
- Added: Sep 28, 2006
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 3
Skydiving can go wrong, terribly wrong, and that can even happen when the parachute opens. This piece chronicles the author's dive on assignment fo...
- Added: May 10, 2005
- Length: 21:55