PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
J.M.W. Turner is perhaps the most important British painter--you would surely recognize an image of Tintern Abbey--and yet his life story has remai...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 03:42
- Purchases: 2
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
When big business news breaks, public relations teams try to get out in front of the story. But that wasn’t always the case. PR in the 19th century...
Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 02:27
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 2
In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...
Bought by KENW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 02:27
The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...
Bought by WMTNradio, Troy Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 3