PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Pompey is assassinated... Wenceslaus is murdered... and the President of Iran would speak before the UN...
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 02:35:31
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
He's been called the 'Brian Wilson of Indie Rock', but the true story's a little more complicated....
Bought by KUOW and PRX Administrator
- Added: May 01, 2006
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 2
The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR
- Added: May 17, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 5
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
