PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Just as his music career was heating up, Decio Rubano discovered he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported to Canada as a young man. He came to St...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:15
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from Bill Hader and Alec Berg, the creators of HBO’s hit crime show, Barry. And later we’ll hear from the filmmake...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Ears Adrift's MC2 Sonja Wickard interviews scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory about the advancements in body armor technology.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:03
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Science writer Mary Roach talks with author and actor Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 4
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Album review for New Jersey band Titus Andronicus's break out Lit-Punk album The Monitor. By Paolo Rosen

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A relic of the infamous space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
During decades of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over the course of the Cold War, both sides wielded science as a weapon. F...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 15:04
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Cleaning Clothes in the Desert was first published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and was written by UK based writer Benjamin Wolfe. Set i...

  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 11:27
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Good morning! Mercenaries are lurking all around you, threatening to swarm your shores! Get up! Get up! Go, go, GO!

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
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The second show featuring stories from the Greatest Generation. Alma Hahn prays for deliverance from a snake-handling church service, a man speaks ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Japanese Surrender, Credit: Marion Doss
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 46:57
Caption: Umalulik in Timor Leste
This week the Global Guru learns how to negotiate land deals, family disputes, wedding arrangements, cattle sales and other deals in Timor Leste.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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From "The Invisible Threat" (7/9/10): War News Radio reports on Iraqis living near prominent public figures.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 07:47
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The Camp's Neo Economist, Jim Smith, revisits the virtual campfire with insights about the economic crisis we face as he covers topics that challen...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:01
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A peace activist turns an abandoned nuclear missile base into his family home.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 3
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 09:01
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Did terrorists bake a baby? Ian doubts it.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:23
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Conflict in Israel? Stop presses!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
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Monty talks about cleaning latrines in Vietnam while sitting in a communal hot tub.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
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How the "insurgents" are branding themselves.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:50