PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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My Grandma Jody, who recently passed away, sharing her life story...
- Added: May 05, 2020
- Length: 22:23
Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 18:40
Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Jamey Aebersold. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 14
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 23:26