PRX - Pieces for Tone: Suspenseful

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

37 results


Remember This
From: Julie Censullo
Series: Out Cold
Caption: Out Cold, Credit: Sophie Nikitas and Julie Censullo
On Christmas Eve, Nora is driving to her boyfriend’s parents' house. But the drive – and her own memories – are not as straightforward as they seem.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 17:31
Warriors, Poets & Ravens
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
Early September, Jupiter tucked under the 2/3 moon at midnight, heaviest of La Luna’s many forms and phases: low over the eastern horizon, like the...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Zach Stephney and Melissa Brooks
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Melissa Brooks and Zack Stephney at the site of her rescue in December of 2009. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Zack Stephney.
Zack Stephney remembers saving Melissa Brooks from the unprecedented 2009 Atlanta flash flood.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 2
The Green Comet
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
"What could it be? There was no balloon and there were no aeronauts. Some strange phenomenon had occurred in the higher zones of the atmosphere, a ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 10 - Beginning of the End
From: KPOV
Series: Zombies Of The Stratosphere
Piece image
"Zombies of the Stratosphere" radio show—your mix tape of retro sci-fi, guitar gods, fusion jazz, surf, and prog rock.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:29
Full Moon Hacksaw #1807 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09-16-2021
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
Piece image
Piano-heavy, tension and release. These are words to describe this week’s radio episode, beginning with exciting Latin music of now from Raices Jaz...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KHNS, KRZA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
Notes from the Jazz Underground #125
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
Piece image
this week, we celebrate the avant-garde legacy of Chicago's Delmark Records, and its founder, Bob Koester, who passed away on May 12, 2021.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Charred Bones In the Sunlight
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it tur...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Concrete Jesus
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a live of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-p...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Halloween Night, 2035 C.E.
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Hey are you going to the big ritual, down in the grove? It's Halloween Night. And while things were pretty bad for a while, lately it has been a li...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Mystery Pig
From: Desert Oracle
Piece image
What is this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lauren Wilkinson, author of "American Spy"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
Piece image
Bob Kustra interviews Lauren Wilkinson about her debut novel "American Spy"

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
It's Been So Long
From: Rhon Manigault-Bryant
Caption: cedar grove overexposed, Credit: DoctorRMB
There are stories. And then, there are STORIES. The kind that stick with you because they are bare and true. And because they make the world look a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Haunted Petroglyph
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Washington Surrendered and Lincoln Didn't
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
Piece image
Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:17:14
Halloween Special (Hour 2)
From: D. Grant Smith
Piece image
What happens when you take gravediggers, the undead, zombies in love, and a few killers and put them in a radio show? You get one of the most ente...

Bought by KMUD, WOUB, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
I Can't Get To You: A Birth Story
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: Reunion
This is a story for my son, whose birth was supposed to be completely normal. It was anything but. And then they separated us. (Produced for the KC...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Three: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: St. Paul, Alaska, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 2 - War
From: Vladic Ravich
Series: Taxi Taxi
Piece image
Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
Art Beat Presents: " Rednecks of the Dead "
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Piece image
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a Winona native who recently penned a book about a Zombie Apocalypse. This author takes notes during his...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 11:04
A Christmas Carol
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
Piece image
Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge and company -- and several spirits -- tell a tale of redemption...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:09
Does a new 9/11 virtual reality video game go too far?
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Piece image
A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:57
The Time Tunnel (mix)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
Piece image
This alternate theme to "The Time Tunnel" has been used on a couple of THE TIME TRAVELER Mondays Late Night Radio Shows, as its end title.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
Aaron Leeder Compositions3
From: Aaron Leeder
Piece image
download and stream available at http://aaronleeder.bandcamp.com/album/orange-silhouette http://facestogether.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-loops-with-...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 13:32
Learning to Lie
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
Piece image
This week, we take a deep look at how and why we learn to lie, and what lying does to you

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2