PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 5
CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 59:13
Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
When Captain John Smith sailed into the Chesapeake Bay, he said oysters were as big as dinner plates. This show is our ode to oysters.
Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...
Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
Look both ways before crossing into January. This week: how to greet the New Year.
- Added: Dec 30, 2007
- Length: 08:30
