PRX - Pieces for Topic: Education

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

1690 results


Died in 2022
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
This is our yearly end of the year show tipping the hat to musicians who passed. Here is our list of players who died in 2022.

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Deep-Fried Air (#1589)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Eels, orts, and Wordle! Sweden awarded its most prestigious literary award to a book about . . . eels. The Book of Eels reveals the mysterious lif...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, KTXK, WSLR, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Stub Your Toe (#1606)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Advice about college essays from the winner of a top prize for children's literature: Kelly Barnhill encourages teens to write about experiences th...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WPCA-LP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Back to Bach
From: KCME
Series: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
Piece image
Music of the Neo-Classical genre with works by Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Paul Hindemith and others.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 57:37
Big Bang (#1605)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
A savory Sicilian sausage roll is always a hit for the holidays. This dish goes by a long list of names that are equally delicious to say. Plus, wh...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, WPCA-LP, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Program 180
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
Piece image
Louis Coerne wields Excalibur in a rarely-heard tone poem. Also music from a beautiful oboe sonata by Christopher Tyler Nickel, classic tunes from ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 57:47
  • Purchases: 4
Program 179
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
Piece image
Erich Wolfgang Korngold takes us to Juarez, Arnold Rosner and Howard Hanson take us back to their student days, George McKay takes us on a harbor c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 57:33
  • Purchases: 4
East Overshoe (#1588)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Some people work hard to lose their accent in order to fit in when they move somewhere else. But others may be homesick for the sounds they grew up...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, WPCA-LP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Dr. David Ray Griffin– "Was this a Cause of the 9/11 Attacks?" Part 2
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
Piece image
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Snookums and Snicklefritz (#1604)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
A new book about how animals perceive their environment reveals immense worlds beyond our own. A bee can see ultraviolet light, catfish have taste ...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, KTXK, WPCA-LP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Herd of Turtles (#1587)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Some college students are using the word loyalty as a synonym for monogamy. Are the meanings of these words now shifting? Plus, a biologist discove...

Bought by KUAT, KREV-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, RADIOLEX, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
The Untold Story of 100 Years at the Stearns County Courthouse
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
Piece image
In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack will see you in court as the Stearns County Courthouse...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:13
If Grandma Had Wheels (#1603)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
While compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, lexicographer James Murray exchanged hundreds of letters a week with authors, advisors, and voluntee...

Bought by KUAT, KREV-LP, KTSW 89.9, RADIOLEX, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Musicians Who Became Politicians
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
With this week being the midterm elections, Let's talk about musicians who became politicians.

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KWIT, KSRQ, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Mittens in Moonlight (#1586)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word....

Bought by KUAT, KREV-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, RADIOLEX, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
Submerged history in the land of 10,000 lakes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A volunteer with the non-profit Maritime Heritage explores a boat wreck at the bottom of Christmas Lake, Credit: Josh Knutson / Maritime Heritage
Have you ever accidentally dropped something in a lake? Plenty of Minnesotans have. That's why lake and river bottoms are full of artifacts and boa...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:38
Diamond Dust (#1585)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSLR and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Songs For the Dead
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
This is our Halloween show. For an hour, we will offer up songs that were written for someone who died. Not much more to it than that.

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, KTRL and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Untold Story of University Archivist Tom Steman and National Archive Month
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
Piece image
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits with St. Cloud State University Archivist Tom S...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:32
Sleepy Winks (#1584)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton's best-known novel. Today the annual ...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSLR and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Program 178
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
Piece image
this week Peter Boyer raises the curtain, David Baker shades the blues, Amy Beach leads us through Grandmother's Garden, Miguel del Aguila takes us...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KWAX, and KVNO


  • Added: Oct 15, 2022
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 4
Program 177
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
Piece image
this week the first movement from the brilliant Clarinet Concerto by Rick Sowash, a deeply personal statement for saxophone and piano by Steven Ban...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KWAX, and KVNO


  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:12
  • Purchases: 4
Touch Grass (#1602)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
High school students in Alabama share some favorite slang terms. If someone tells you to touch grass, they're telling you to get a reality check --...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Bobby McDaniel - The Lynyrd Skynyrd Crash
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
This week is an interview with Bobby McDaniel, one of the first people to arrive and assist in the crash of the Lynyrd Skynyrd airplane, October 20...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, WLPR , KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Made from Scratch (#1583)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
Piece image
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones