PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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On the next episode of the show, storyteller Pippa White will tell us the tale of a woman who, faced with a long ocean voyage, makes kind of a stub...
Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 5
Join us today for a good-natured celebration of some of our early presidents. We share tales about Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. It's an hour...
Bought by KALW, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTSW 89.9, WVPE, KCNP and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 54:56
- Purchases: 7
We place some focus on some stories that are inspired by famous literature.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 58:02
I talk with Helene Wecker, author of "The Golem and The Jinni," a novel about Jewish and Arabic mythological characters meeting in New York.
Bought by WABE and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 24:02
- Purchases: 2
Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1
A tale from New Amsterdam concerning the origin of 13 being a baker's dozen.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 03:26
About A Sidekick Christmas
Written by historian and former All Things Considered commentator Andrew Ward and read by the great character actor Barr...
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 48:02