PRX - Pieces for Tone: Offbeat
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In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
- Added: Nov 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: May 02, 2021
- Length: 57:24
- Purchases: 1
Piano Pros: Pete Jolly, Nichole Pesche, Art Tatum, Armand Boatman. Hosted by Hacksaw Tom. Do we mean professionals or professors? Maybe Piano PROS...
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 58:00
A detective story about the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.
Bought by KKRN, WNJR, WCPN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 20
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
- Added: Jun 28, 2016
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 14
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- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 15
Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
This week we follow cues from the paper ""The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010" as we attempt to find out what tomorrow's popular music wi...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
They weren't intended to be the hit, but someone made them so.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Rufus Porter was a nineteenth-century American artist, journalist, and brilliant inventor, who almost made it into the history books, but not quite.
Bought by Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
A great melody and chord structure pay tribute to Miles, effective blues written by Leonard Feather is sung by actress Linda Hopkins. Swing is a fe...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 01:59:55
- Purchases: 3
How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:39
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 01:46
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:43
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 01:46
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
Things aren't always what they seem *
*(but sometimes they are)
Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
Travelin'
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 10
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
For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Off the Beat explores secret spaces around Providence, including the abandoned underground railroad tunnel, Keeney tunnels, and some less literal p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:47
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
