PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 58:55
Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Pick Your Poison" - A weapon? A medicine? A murder mystery plot? Take your pick. HOUR TWO: "Sentimentality For Silicon" - When does a ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
-Making musical pieces with the sounds that got stripped out of MP3s.
-There is a rich sonic landscape that defines New York City.
-Andrew Kaufman'...
Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU, WRGY and more
- Added: Jul 06, 2018
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 12
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 58:03
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer chip and founding Intel, willed Silicon Valley in...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 25:17
- Purchases: 1
Back in 1986, Joe Nocera spent a week shadowing Steve Jobs, who was then leading his start-up, NeXT, and attempting to build a new kind of computer...
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 26:12
What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 57:26
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 05:00
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 4
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4