PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:03:24
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 01:43
- Purchases: 3
This is the short segment focusing only on Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf musics' similar sounds. Taken from the 170429 show.
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 01:20:55
A journey rebooting radio for 2015: From Boston moving south, traveling light from Brazil, hit blues revisited and looking forward. Guitar prowess...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 02:00:02
- Purchases: 3
From: john rabe
Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Three more short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Mose Allison. In this batch, we learn about Mose's move from Mississippi to NYC, his gri...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR and more
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 12
In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:21
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
The greatest hazard to navigation on Canada's west coast, then and now.
Bought by The Nature Podcast and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Mar 13, 2007
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
Sound-rich reflection on origins of wireless and radio broadcasting
Bought by KWMR, KZSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 23, 2005
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 4
Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2