PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
11 results
Jonathan Franklin shares the story of how Salvador Alvarenga survived for more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Joan Druett shares the para...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 52:49
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: May 02, 2021
- Length: 57:24
- Purchases: 1
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
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
Only 120 copies of John Audubon’s Birds of America are known to exist and one complete set is stored in a climate controlled vault at the Minneapol...
- Added: Oct 03, 2011
- Length: 05:30
Tales of pirates and plunder have inspired more than a few Hollywood epics. Did you catch the summer block buster with Johnny Depp? But pirates le...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The great swathes of the Western Australian wheatbelt were created a century ago when 1000 acres of bush were burned a day and the land became the ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WYSO and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2006
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 6
What if the government wanted to blow up thermonuclear bombs near your house -- and forgot to tell you about it.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPFA, and KSUT
- Added: Jun 25, 2006
- Length: 14:33
- Purchases: 4
