PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary
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It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 25:47
Burning Man is pagan at its core with a hell-ish aesthetic. So why do so many devout Christians attend? And what do they do there?
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 20:34
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is a media mogul. A philanthropist. A feminist hero. But before the Grammys, the platinum records and Destiny’s Child, ther...
Bought by KUHF, WCMU Michigan, KOSU, KERA, WXPN and more
- Added: Jan 24, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 29
For most of his adult life Peter Wolf Toth has been on a mission to honor the native American tribes of Virginia. Over the decades he has carved ma...
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 26:08
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
Lester Blackiston was a pirate . . .
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
In a Rough Drafts Diaries first, the connections have run dry. In our last episode, our interview only gave one connection instead of the usual thr...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 06:11
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 28:06
- Purchases: 2
Birmingham, Alabama, singer-songwriter Josh Vasa of the band Sanyasi talks about his Indian heritage, writing, and the value of cheesy lyrics.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:24
- Purchases: 3
In our food-obsessed culture, we likely never think about what's on the menu at an eating disorder clinic. A couple of gourmet chefs bring their in...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:55
- Purchases: 3
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
Chicago drummer, Joel Styzens, thought his career as a musician was over when he was diagnosed with hyperacusis and tinnitus. In this profile, Joel...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 15:05
- Purchases: 1
A one-hour radio documentary about the cultural resurgance taking place in Kodiak, Alaska.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KSFR, WRIR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 23
A San Francisco artist takes on the ambitious project of drawing individual portraits of all the American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Added: May 24, 2008
- Length: 20:52