PRX - Pieces for Tone: Thoughtful
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
Gay Dillingham talks the beauty of complexity, unexpected family ties, and a new way of looking at death.
- Added: Jul 11, 2015
- Length: 23:25
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 3
Sean Fitzpatrick and Officer John Gately remember the day back in 2003 when Sean came to school with a gun.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 02:27
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
It’s Black Music Month and we’re celebrating with a look at only a few of the many many incredible artists who have shaped music, crossed genres an...
Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and WJSU
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.
- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 25:37
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
Charlottesville is gearing up for the fourth annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Kelley Libby repor...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 03:54
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 23:44
- Purchases: 2
Bowling as a competitive sport and family pastime peaked decades ago. The game still exists, but with fewer participants. KFAI producer Bill Lindek...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:01
Sherry Minnick has sung many styles of music in her life. In the last few decades she has focused on great traditional songs, many of them very old...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
As the old year ends and a new year begins, the passage of time is on our minds. We check the time on cell phones, computer monitors, watches and w...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
The Francis Little House in Deephaven, Minnesota, was designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The building and design took some time--l...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 1
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:23
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Shelton Johnson is a ranger at Yosemite National Park. He’s part Cherokee, part African American, and part Seminole. And he’s used his background ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 2
Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 5
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...
Bought by WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 3
