PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Hop on board Berlin’s Ringbahn, a suburban train that carries over 400,000 passengers each day and circles some of the city’s most authentic and li...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 23:41
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 19:41
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
3D audio trips to 'special places' on the land; supernatural spots with unusual acoustics and extraordinary sounds.
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 11:02
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 4
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
In this soundscape, entitled Verano Mexicano (Mexican Summer), you will hear the intricate rhythms of a Mexican rainstorm, the historic sounds of t...
- Added: Jan 06, 2007
- Length: 30:29
- Added: Nov 30, 2006
- Length: 08:24
The Half Way - Station in Jackson, Tennessee is the oldest operating terminal in the U.S.
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WVTF
- Added: Nov 14, 2006
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
A newcomer to Los Angeles discovers the city's past -- and future -- through the books of noir master Raymond Chandler.
- Added: Nov 08, 2006
- Length: 13:28
Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 04:36
Sound Rich Journey on a traditional wagon train in North-Central Nebraska.
- Added: Jun 06, 2006
- Length: 04:02
More than half of Hawaii's residents speak Pidgin - a combination of English, Hawaiian and Asian languages.
- Added: Aug 15, 2005
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 6
