PRX - Pieces for Topic: Travel

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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Will Rogers loved to travel, but he also loved to poke fun at his fellow tourists

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
Caption: No Kanchenjungha :-(, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy finally… finally sees the mysterious Kanchenjungha with his own eyes! Finally!

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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"Airport Safety" is a short, humorous satire of TSA regulations—and popular culture. This is a sound-rich protest piece, perfect for a comedy progr...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:19
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Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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Jenna explains how chamber music can get you into first-class on high-speed French trains.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:41
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Joe talks about his travel nightmares and what makes his Ford Fiesta the ultimate bass driving machine.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:30
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Being a traveling pianist has its challenges -- bringing your instrument along, for one. Prach tells a story of the first time things came together...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 02:01
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Eli talks about the reactions she gets when traveling with her cello.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 01:25
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Michael tells a story about his cello -- part instrument and part travel companion -- at the Birdfoot Festival.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Learn how to say, "My friend will pay" in several languages

  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: :38
Caption: Champagne Bottles Post-Sabrage, Credit: Jane Alexander
This week we sharpen our swords in the Champagne region of France to learn how the French sabrage!

Bought by KMXT, WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Unique to the state of Colima, this week's Global Guru explores the familial vaudevillian antics of a Mexican botanero through the eyes of a charmi...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 3
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This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2
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This week the Global Guru learns about the mural movement in Ajijic, Mexico, two generations after Diego Rivera's vision.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 2
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This week the Global Guru wades through tourist kitsch to find authentic aboriginal boomerangs.

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 3
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Commentator Chris Goldstein reflects on Santa Fe and his transformation to a "local"

  • Added: Dec 31, 2005
  • Length: 03:16
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Snippets of a teenager's life after evacuating New Orleans and starting again in Chicago

Bought by WBEZ and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Sep 28, 2005
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
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A witty parody of the popular GeoQuiz segment from PRI's The World

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 27, 2004
  • Length: 01:10
  • Purchases: 1
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This short piece pokes fun at the popular GeoQuiz segment of PRI's The World.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 1