PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:29
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
A funny look at the things French People Find Strange About The U.S.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Episode 12 - Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 51:58
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54
Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 07:49
Politics doesn't run smoothly when the language to be used is left as an option.
- Added: Sep 04, 2013
- Length: 08:25
Author Vicki Leon takes us for a ride through the ages of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 1
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 1
Try to imagine drinking your way through this book! That’s what author Leslie M. M. Blume has done in order to provide recipes for 144 cocktails.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 13:16
- Purchases: 1
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Added: Nov 05, 2008
- Length: 03:24
- Added: Sep 15, 2006
- Length: 57:13
- Purchases: 1
