PRX - Pieces for Topic: Public Affairs

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Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
Caption: Tom Llewellyn and the wrapper for his Thunder Bombs, Credit: David Matsui
As a kid, Tom Llewellyn fought gentrification with his beloved Thunder Bombs.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:52
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Scientists are studying a new emotion: elevation. Ian heads straight for the basement.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:03
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Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Ms. Clinton's cleavage stirs controversy. What's wrong with us?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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AMY DICKINSON, author of the nationally syndicated "Dear Amy" advice column talks, with great humor, about her her life and work.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
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First person accounts of Hurricane Katrina cultural responses - humorous and kitschy

  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:21
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A commentary noting that the U.S. Mint is once again trying to peddle $1 coins that we don't want.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 02:50
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Passage of the constitutional ban on same-sex marriages sought by President Bush could make him an Eliot Ness, chasing violators as Ness chased vio...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:25
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Living life in the datamine.

  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:01
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Moussaoui verdict and us, in Ian's opinion.

  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 01:52
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Senior LifeStyles Update - 3 short segments

  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 07:59
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Terrorism and the Movies: Connection?

  • Added: Aug 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:30
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Authoritarian v. Totalitarian: a rose by another name....?

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
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Hardliners aim the redline Arlen Specter.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 01:36
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Islam needs Unitarianism

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Oct 10, 2004
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 3
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In this offbeat essay the commentator examines her newfound habit of cursing, a feeble but oddly satisfying response to these Orwellian times.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 03:31
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What is it about PowerPoint that makes it capable of ruining the Gettysburg Address?

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Sep 16, 2003
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 1