PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 13:29
-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...
- Added: May 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
William Apess, a Pequot man who came of age during the Jacksonian era, has been called the Native American Frederick Douglas.
Plus: The visiona...
Bought by WJCT, WVAS, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KRZA and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be.
-Managers who...
Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 1
Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
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Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...
Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 25, 2011
- Length: 55:08
- Purchases: 6
Look both ways before crossing into January. This week: how to greet the New Year.
- Added: Dec 30, 2007
- Length: 08:30
