PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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We hear a familiar phrase, “2021 was not a good year for me,” and it’s true. 2021 was not a good year for Haley.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:58
An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:06
Mo Beck was a professional climber who regularly won gold in competitions. But when she joined a team on a long expedition in the remote Cirque of ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 21:51
- Purchases: 3
Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license!
Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:15
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29
Alaskans try to make situations better, only to make them much, much worse...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 4
Have some chuckles as Amy Poehler reads from her new book, Yes Please. Another example of our daily 100-second compelling readings you don't want y...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:40
I was hired in 1974 to help Ginger Rogers learn her lines for the opening of “Forty Carats,” at the Drury Lane East Theatre in Chicago. And that’s...
- Added: Sep 21, 2013
- Length: 16:55
The characters who assembled every Monday night for the Open Mic at Earl’s Pub. This is the same Earl who owned the famous “Earl of Old Town Club,...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 20:17
Mikki Lunda and Hana Zimorino are easy to spot walking down the street. The ladies are sharp dressers rarely caught without lipstick and their sign...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 07:22
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 15:07
Danae wanted to get Margaret something very, very special for her golden birthday. So she planned an elaborate surprise for her. But Margaret doesn...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 2
Producer Rebecca Lavoie interviews a well-known trust and estates attorney about the inheritence rights of frozen embryos and other genetic material.
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 06:42
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
I like craft. Artisans. People who actually make things with their hands. If you do, too, then this show is for you. We speak with June Rettig, mas...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 13, 2010
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 1
An absurd moment with her earnest, younger self as seen through the objective eyes of middle age.
- Added: Apr 24, 2007
- Length: 04:02
Moira Quirk shares her experiences with mammary malfunctions and melt-downs during breast-feeding.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUT
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 2
Single commuters use mass transit for mass flirting
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
Meet the ladies who won the bygone "Miss Subways" contest that ran from 1941 to 1976
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 03:36
Two elderly sisters, who are not twins, dress exactly the same, eat all the same food, and go everywhere together.
Bought by WJCT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more
- Added: Nov 05, 2003
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 9
