PRX - Pieces for Topic: Holidays
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Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 32:47
- Purchases: 1
A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 14:46
- Purchases: 2
Come with Tom Wright from Australia to Great Britain over 11,000 miles and nine time zones & hear tales of flying from the Outback, Indonesia, Indi...
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 42:53
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 05:23
Another night of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... Made substantially better via my tin foil hat.
- Added: Feb 03, 2013
- Length: 02:53:50
And some great interstitials between music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Americana music from the 1950s to the 1970's. O...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 02:48:26
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 12:26
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 46:15
- Purchases: 2
Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with this edition of Kaleidoscope. From Mose the Firefighter to terminology and Irish practices, here is a look at th...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 47:56
- Purchases: 1
Dedicated to the late broadcaster, J.P. McCarthy—Detroit's #1 Irishman—here is a two-hour celebration for St. Patrick's Day. In song, poetry, and p...
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 01:33:41
- Purchases: 2
An exploration of the days following December 25th, including their significance and some common household traditions. Also included are readings o...
Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WRNC-LP, KRPS, KUHF, KREV-LP and more
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 47:59
- Purchases: 6
An account of the life and works of George Frederick Handel, most notably the writing of "Messiah."
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Nov 19, 2010
- Length: 45:47
- Purchases: 1
Our Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers—Mike Whorf details the first few years of the Plymouth colony and the natives they befriended.
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 44:09
Unions are marking Labor Day with high hopes that the Obama administration will move to finally lessen the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. wo...
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 04:20
Thoughtful commentary about the symbolic role of lights at Christmas
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 03:30
Ideas for slimming that holiday wasteline
- Added: Dec 08, 2005
- Length: 02:05
Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WTJU, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 4
A commentary on how working life would be much harder and far less rewarding were it not for organized labor.
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WTIP, WSLR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Delta College Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 07, 2005
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 10
