PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical Anniversaries
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Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
‘Disco Demolition Night’, the brainchild of 24 year-old shock jock Steve Dahl, caused mass hysteria at Comiskey Park, Chicago on 12th July, 1979 – ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:43
One of the BBC’s biggest-ever flops, soap opera ‘Eldorado’, broadcast its final episode on 9th July, 1993 - just one year after it had begun, at a ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:50
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music from around the globe urging us to approach the natural world with gemilut chassadim – or loving kindne...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
March 8 is Women's Equality Day, when the World Economic Forum measures how women are doing in every country compared to men. So how do US women me...
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Feb 28, 2023
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack will see you in court as the Stearns County Courthouse...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 29:13
Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 38:58
"Sounds Jewish" parties like it's 360 BCE with a global Jewish playlist celebrating the approaching Purim holiday.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Synesthete Joyce Yang describes the colors of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 31 as she plays.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:37
In Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony No. 3, his intention was to shock his audience.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:13
He wanted larger and louder. The stage was set for Beethoven, but being on the cusp of change had its challenges.
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Cómo Ludwig van Beethoven proyectó una gran sombra sobre Haydn y Brahms, dos gigantes de la música que vinieron antes y después de él.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:14
Beethoven’s teacher, Franz Josef Haydn, was eclipsed by the genius of his young student. Later, a young Johannes Brahms spent decades writing his f...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Seth Kaempfer from SCSU’s LGBT Resource Cen...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 29:51
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Dr. Amy Knopf and Graduate Assistant Kaitly...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 30:00
Woody Guthrie looked up to Will Rogers, and took a lot of his early stage presence from Will's influence.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack hangs out with St. Cloud State Un...
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 27:57
Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
In today’s episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we get to meet the new Executive Director of the Stearns History Museum, Carie Essig...
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 31:04
For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on World Footprints we celebrate Canada’s Francophone roots in the Quebec region as we walk in the footsteps of history at the New France Fes...
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 59:55
Music executive, Danny Goldberg, discusses 1967 and the counterculture.
Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 3
The Colorado Department of Transportation says the 420 mile markers on the state’s highways were stolen so often, they had to replace them with 419...
Bought by KZYX, XRAY.fm, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUER, and CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 5
Rock School is celebrating its 9th year on the air. Each anniversary, we do a show suggested by a listener and so we are going to do the history of...
Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
