PRX - Pieces for Topic: Senior

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It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new pla...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:50
Caption: www.TheForgottenFamous.com
One of American music's original crossover kings, his music transformed a city and an industry forever. 

  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 18:45
Caption: www.TheForgottenFamous.com
Cloaked in mythology by the age of 40, this original hero of the Wild West embodied the term "living legend." So why have we forgotten him?

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 17:16
Caption: www.TheForgottenFamous.com
He was the brawny icon of sports' Golden Age, and his singular popularity revolutionized live entertainment forever. So how did this legend get for...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 12:13
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Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan, Credit: Doug Dobery
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
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Everyone loves a good happy hour - a chance to socialize and sip spirits. But what about happy hour in an assisted living facility?

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hilda Baumol (left) and Monte Malach (right)., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Longtime New Yorkers recall a bygone era of NYC when eating out was a rare luxury, and eateries that vanished long ago -- automats, Nedick's (hot d...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner (left) and Debra Klaber (right)., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
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One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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The story of the unique bond between a father and son - Danny and Connor Hughes in County Louth who run two shops side by side...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 33:05
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Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
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A man courts his wife in Scotland.

Bought by WKNO


  • Added: Oct 11, 2003
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1