PRX - Pieces for Topic: Politics
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In the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War & the civil-rights movement heated up, the U.S. State Department sent jazz musicians on goodwill tours around...
- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing unease and the youthful vitality...
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Marshall Curry talks how demagogues push our buttons, the definition of patriotism, and why 20,000 Americans showed up to cheer at a Nazi rally at ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2019
- Length: 16:10
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jay Roach talks fear-based manipulation, Trumbo’s complex personality, and Louis C.K.’s rumpled collar,
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 15:35
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 15:03
In this special edition of the Cannabis Radio News host Brian Bahouth visits an end of prohibition celebration on the Burnside Bridge in Portland O...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
Musicians routinely sing about love--love in bloom and love gone bad. But there's another songwriting tradition as well--the political or protest ...
Bought by WORLDcompass.org, WFHB, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 3
Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2007
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 6
A documentary from the epicenter of California's housing crisis. Two versions available: 59 minute and NPR-Clock Friendly with cutaways.
- Added: Nov 30, 2004
- Length: 59:02
