PRX - Pieces for Topic: Humor
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- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 1
A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: :48
- Purchases: 1
A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
Ten-year-old triplets Maddy, Zoë, and Nick Waters have spent their entire lives together, sharing everything from a birthday to a bedroom. But desp...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WEZU
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Sean reads an old short story he wrote about how oxen are the future for our workforce.
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Here's a little song about apple season: I planted an apple in the springtime / I wanted an apple tree to grow ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:45
This bit of nonsense verse is inspired by the Maori hangi - a traditional method of cooking which is still very popular in New Zealand and elsewher...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: :46
The story of a girl who was totally convinced her teenage diary would one day be discovered... and become mandatory reading for generations to come.
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 16:05
A collaborative “Short List” poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
Give your listeners a break from the news with this one-hour special that mixes new radio theater and classic soundtracks, deconstructed by veteran...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 54:38
- Purchases: 1
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Hyman Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. Well, he did as soon as he found something to write with as we see i...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
There are several theories as to what happened to the people of The Roanoke Colony. We explore one theory in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars, the residents of Hartlepool in England once put what they thought was a French spy on trial. We take...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. We see exactly how far ahead of his time John Montagu was in...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Fourteen year old, Philo T. Farnsworth, continues his work on the electric television. Apparently there was some trouble with some of the early mod...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
We’re very lucky that Philo T. Farnsworth, as a teenager, didn’t have any distractions like television to keep him from inventing…well…television. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Signed in 1215 in England, The Magna Carta is said to have inspired many constitutional documents including the United States Constitution. Journey...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1803, Lewis & Clark set out to trek across the Pacific Northwest to find passage to the Pacific Ocean. We are there moments after they started t...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Georges Claude is responsible for bringing the first ever neon signs to America when he sold two of them to a Packard Dealership in Los Angeles. We...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
One of Nikola Tesla’s greatest inventions was The Tesla Coil. However, even from the start, people were confused about what it did and what it was ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
