PRX - Pieces for Tone: Suspenseful
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 49:00
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 44:17
Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 37:16
John “Sonny” Franzese was once described as “largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He’d been active in the...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 23:46
- Purchases: 1
When Tyler Wetherall was a kid, her mother and father packed up the family car and drove through the night. They were on the run from the FBI. And ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 26:41
- Purchases: 2
"If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:25
An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 23:07
- Purchases: 3
Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 27:10
In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 26:14
- Purchases: 1
Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 26:32
- Purchases: 1
In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 19:39
- Purchases: 1
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story.
Melinda...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 31:45
- Purchases: 2
When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 25:27
- Purchases: 2
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
I brought a microphone when I visited my grandfather, and he told stories I'd never heard. This is one of those stories, with original music and so...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 3
This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
Libby St. Pierre knew since she was a young girl that she wanted only a few simple things in life: a career, which she has as a nurse in Auburn, Ma...
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 3
Tanya Ward shares her experience of recovery from the disease of addiction. In and out of jail from the age of 16, a life on the run, living on one...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 16, 2009
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 2
Two men tell stories about gun accidents and talk about the responsibility that comes with handling firearms
- Added: Oct 13, 2006
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 2
