PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
There’s been a documentary, a Broadway musical, an HBO movie, and a memoir. The documentary, produced 40-years ago, is a cult classic, and has heav...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 27, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This program is devoted to the creative composers, vocalists and musicians who were so important in the early years of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
he year 1099 marked the Crusade’s final act … the conquest of Jerusalem. This deed has long been taken as proof of the crusaders’ anti-Islamic hatr...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 22, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 27:18
- Purchases: 3
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Harvard historian Nancy Koehn began examining the qualities great leaders must have in order to gain the confidence of the people.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Documentary filmmakers Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen look at a small Tuscan village where each year life is translated into art.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 29:24
- Purchases: 1
The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification in 1788. After all of this time, many Americans take the words of the consti...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning author and cook Rae Eighmey marries food with history to create culinary biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author and moderator of Face the Nation, John Dickerson’s book Whistlestop is a witty rollicking tour of presidential campaign history
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took up residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in 1932, Eleanor looked upon the move to the White House with...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
It’s known as the single greatest maritime disaster in history. Yet, it is a little known story. This casualty of World War II was far deadlier tha...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
From: Guy RathbunSeries: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This is a difficult story to tell. Most Americans are sickened that it’s even part of our heritage: The practice of lynching. It’s so distant, most...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
