PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:06
Mo Beck was a professional climber who regularly won gold in competitions. But when she joined a team on a long expedition in the remote Cirque of ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 21:51
- Purchases: 3
It's springtime and Earth Day! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are five stories to help you get outside ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 1
According to the USDA, nearly half of all the American adults listening to this story right now will eat a sandwich today. So, how has this simple ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 06:51
Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 2
It’s spring! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are four stories.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 37:09
Marty Edwards wanted to go on a fun trip with his girlfriend. But Mother Nature had other plans.
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 32:00
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29
"Up A River, Without… A Pigeon?" and "Bigfoot"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Charlie Thomas worked as a whitewater rafting gu...
Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with an ax at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Can a century-old brutal murder save t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 08:10
- Purchases: 1
Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 4
When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
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 19, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Have some chuckles as Amy Poehler reads from her new book, Yes Please. Another example of our daily 100-second compelling readings you don't want y...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:40
An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Host and producer of This American Life IRA GLASS, RadioLab's JAD ABUMRAD and ROBERT KRULWICH, Prairie Home Companion's GARRISON KEILLOR and music ...
Bought by 90.5 WESA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KSRQ, and WCPN
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:48
Hear from three people who do a media fast to take back control of their lives from their smartphones, Internet, and Social Media.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
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
The story of two boys who, in 1985, instead of going in for their dinner, decided to go on a little journey....
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUT
- Added: Mar 05, 2011
- Length: 39:01
- Purchases: 3
Performance artist Nate Hill describes a harrowing break-up.
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 05:08
Producer Rebecca Lavoie interviews a well-known trust and estates attorney about the inheritence rights of frozen embryos and other genetic material.
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 06:42
Real dreams. Original music. Bottle of wine. Turn on, tune in, drop out.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 13:04
