PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 52:52
- Purchases: 1
This week, the team visits Sardes--join our discussion on Judaism in Turkey.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
This week - Remembering.
In light of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, we hear from those who survived the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We also h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 29:59
More than any contemporary jazz artist, Randy Weston understood, honored and explored the roots of American music in Africa.
- Added: Dec 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In this program, we explore tarab with special guest UCLA ethnomusicology professor A.J. Racy.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The Shona mbira is one of the most entrancing musical sounds out of Africa.
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In this program, author and scholar Deborah Kapchan guides us through the history, practices, music, lore and unique contemporary stature of the Gn...
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
To start its latest season, the award-winning A New York Minute in History podcast celebrates Native American Heritage Month with a conversation ab...
- Added: Dec 04, 2023
- Length: 29:30
The ‘Windsor Shower Companion’ ($11.49) was the first product sold on home shopping network QVC, which made its debut on 24th November, 1986, quick...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:30
With cutesy graphics and a female-focussed origin story, Tamagotchi was positioned as a ‘nurturing toy’ for Japanese girls when Bandai launched the...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 10:10
Pope Clement V ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar and seizure of their properties on 22nd November, 1307: a day that sealed the fate of the ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:11
Did climate change start with the industrial revolution, or was it earlier than that? And how can the story of an everyday spice help us better und...
Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas
- Added: Nov 23, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Hamas didn't parachute into Gaza from another planet. The Islamic Resistance Movement, its leaders and militants are an organic part of a packed po...
- Added: Nov 19, 2023
- Length: 58:39
Recorded in 2005, teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel all speak their truths. The group had gathered at an annual meet up at a Peace C...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:14
In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:12
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 11:18
In this program, we look back at our conversations with Tuku going back to our first visit to Zimbabwe in 1988, and hear his wonderful music at var...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:11
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 11:18
The French government introduced a new State religion on 10th November, 1793: the ‘Cult of Reason’, which attempted to reflect the anti-clerical at...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 11:10
Presidential diplomacy now routinely involves hundreds of trips on Air Force One – but, until Theodore Roosevelt travelled to inspect the Panama Ca...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Bruce Miller appeared to be the victim of a violent robbery at his salvage yard when his body was discovered on 8th November, 1999 - but he had act...
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 10:51
In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unearth the origin...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:32
In a quirky blend of sports, public health, and self-promotion, boxing legend Muhammad Ali took on an unusual opponent at the Washington Monument o...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:16
