PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Life in the 1970's with Tricky Dick...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 02:37:32
Trump defended it... Obama derided it and the Pope wants to dictate it...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 02:23:52
An economic history of New Orleans doesn't involve military statues or big men to build a mythological story and capture the romantic's view of her...
- Added: Aug 28, 2017
- Length: 03:45:50
Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:51:09
A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:22:46
Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 02:31:50
Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 02:17:14
Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 02:26:40
We’ll hear music about trains, and learn some little known facts and myths about Purdue on today’s What’s New.
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 43:39
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Summer of Love as we travel back to 1967 with LBJ, Mick Jagger, Frank Zappa, Julie Christie, John Cage, Timot...
Bought by KRZA and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 30:36
- Purchases: 2
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 3
The entire 1951 movie is narrated -- and commented on -- in this sound-rich radio show...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 02:36:58
This episode we’re heavy on tropical rhythms, especially Brazilian. Canhoto da Paraiba doesn’t care about fame, just guitar. Reflective substantive...
Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 02:00:00
- Purchases: 6
Time travel is really possible, in theory...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:35:33
The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of one Rob Roy MacGregor...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:29:26
John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:34:05
The first two-party debate of the 2016 presidential election; wreaking havoc in Africa and the Spanish Main, Sir Francis Drake disembarks at Plymou...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 02:22:44
Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.
- Added: Sep 26, 2016
- Length: 02:54:37
Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 11:51
Everything you wanted to know about earth's companion. And the catastrophic fire that burned much of Rome in 64 AD...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:30:58
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
Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...
- Added: Sep 18, 2016
- Length: 03:23:48