PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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Stop laughing Americans, it's not what you think. Starting with the industrial revolution in the UK, people were employed as human alarm clocks, wa...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
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An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 21:47
Caption: Myles Standish reenactor
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...

Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 3
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A little history, a lot of fun. Visit Atomic Boys - a Seattle shop specializing in nostalgic candy.

Bought by WMMT and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
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In the long ago and far away of mid-to-late twentieth-century America, the clothesline was a common feature of the landscape. Sheets, towels, cloth...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
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Although the term civility seems to connote a type of outmoded, formal etiquette not practiced since the turn of the previous century, the use of c...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:13
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
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The story behind the word "pedigree"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:32
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The story behind the word "assassin"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:50

  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: PRX default Piece image
humorous true story from an Irishman's memories of a "charm cure"

  • Added: Mar 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:13
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13