PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
In addition to being a great composer, Beethoven was a world-class pianist. But his last performance did not go at all well, as Dale McGowan explains.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 05:48
Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.
Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 19:55
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 25:00
- Purchases: 3
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
Iraq war Veteran Travis Williams, sole survivor of his 12-man squad, remembers the explosion that took his 11 teammates.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 1
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:44
A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
This piece focuses on memories of businesses located in the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a communit...
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 02:35
A compilation of memories of the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a community currently undergoing "red...
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 06:31
Orphan Train riders re-live their journeys in search of a home in the West.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 24, 2004
- Length: 52:59
- Purchases: 33
