PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical

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The story behind the word "poker"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:54
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The story behind the word "pioneer"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:35
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The story behind the word "bombast"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
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The story behind the word "arcade"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:31
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The story behind the word "tributary"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
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The story behind the word "kowtow"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:40
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Host Fred Flaxman explores classical music used as themes of radio and TV programs.

Bought by WUAL, KENW, WMRT, KAMU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 17
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13
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The history of the twentieth century told through a love story, a mandolin, and an 81-year-old husband?s guide to good sex?

Bought by WRNC-LP, KUT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:18
  • Purchases: 7
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A quick musical look at the career of the Count

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, 90.5 WSNC, and KGOU


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 4
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A commentary on today's dreadfully tacky Major League Baseball uniforms.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:33
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Come along on the hunt for buried treasure: antique bottles.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KTNA


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
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As it became an integral part of filmmaking in the 1930s and 40s, Technicolor became much more than a way to present colors on the silver screen.

Bought by KZSC and WHQR


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 2
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James Madison's house is destroyed - on purpose

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WHQR


  • Added: Jun 28, 2004
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
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A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

  • Added: May 24, 2004
  • Length: 09:01