PRX - Pieces for Format: Special

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

27 results


Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Black History Month with hot Jewish music performed by African-American singers and instrumentalists

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
We're approaching Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, your official opportunity to get right with the universe.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:20:37
Piece image
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
Piece image
Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
Piece image
Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:08:20
Piece image
This is the short segment focusing only on Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf musics' similar sounds. Taken from the 170429 show.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:20:55
Piece image
A hilarious look at the man who invented live alligator wrestling as a Florida tourist attraction, and his inventive wife who raised a family outsi...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:09
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: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
Piece image
Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
For the second week of March (3/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a preacher’s son who helped launch a rock star’s c...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Piece image
For the third week of September (9/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who straddled both political and cul...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
Piece image
For the third week of March (3/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a blues legend who also made some of the first know...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Piece image
For the fourth week of February (2/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing group that was founded in the 1800s b...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:33
Piece image
For the third week of January (1/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female R&B artist who is a triple th...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Piece image
For the fourth week of November (11/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was born the son of a former slave...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Piece image
For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at some musicians who really knew how to honk their horns.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Daws Butler's Halloween Happening, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of Yogi Bear, Daws Butler!

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 45:24
Piece image
Who says 13 is unlucky? We’ve made it this far and are so thankful to have done so! For thirteen, we travel to just north of Tucson, AZ to intervie...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The former political writer of "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" takes you on a "newsical" trip through the looking glass with narration, musi...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2010
  • Length: 54:50