PRX - Pieces for Tone: Humorous

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Think of your favorite Motown song. If there is a flute or piccolo on that song, it was played by Dayna Hartwick. For close to a decade, she was ...

Bought by KTRL, KSRQ, WYAP, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Re-live all the show tunes, melodrama and backstage gossip that is the school theater as Mortified pays tribute to the Drama Nerd. Featuring Amy Di...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
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Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
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Hosts Devon Dennison and Zoe Sheinkopf explore the difference between rational and irrational fears with help from Ron Kleinknecht, former dean of ...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 19:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Sarah and Ellie take us on an adventure through the life of the director of Seattle’s All City Band, and then journey into the struggles of a stude...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 15:08
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The Guardians of History features seven archivists working at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library. It explores why we archivists do what we do. It...

Bought by KLCC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit a FallCon (comic book convention). I bumped into two men who are friends as well as neighbors from Hopkins MN...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 22:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:48
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 19:47
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This piece was recorded live on June 5, 2012 at the Pauger House and later produced by Natalie Yahr. The theme of the evening was "Undercover," and...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:23
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Kevin Van Kanegan worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago for 27 years before being fired during the 2010 Illinois state budget crisis. He ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Poco- one of the orphaned Chimpanzees, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Joseph Mayo was hired as the first chimpanzee keeper for the Sweet Waters Chimpanzee Sanctuary at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in 1993 and has worked ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
Caption: Jimmy Breslin in his Manhattan home.
This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Young man speaks of the manners involved with a first date and how etiquette interfere with getting a second.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
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What will students really be thinking?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
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6 years ago producer Barbara Bernstein attended the 40th reunion of her sixth grade class. Not sure what to expect, she brought along a microphone ...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: 20:17
  • Purchases: 1
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One organism in celebration of life!...and music...etc."

Bought by KPIK-LP, WXLV-FM, KWCW, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 4