PRX - Pieces for Topic: Media

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

25 results


Indie Band American Football
From: Alex Kime
Series: Alex Kime - Chicago
Caption: Alex Kime
Indie-Rock band American Football offers a candid conversation about the realities of facing the spotlight. Produced by Alex Kime

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 22:26
Episode 84: Masterpiece
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
Piece image
In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:15
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 75: The Gatekeeper
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
Piece image
“I keep saying ‘where’s the body? Kill someone,’” Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 crime novels a year to determine which are worthy ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 15: Darren Criss
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Piece image
Darren Criss: The Song is The Song Julian sits down with his youngest guest yet, to talk Chet Baker, Cole Porter, and the perpetual importance of t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 14: Ana Gasteyer
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Piece image
Old friends reunite in The Jonathan Channel studios to rehash their strong feelings for the Great American Songbook.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
Summertime Songs
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte
Piece image
This episode is about songs that reference summer.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Birds (in Music) Version One - EXPANDED EDITION
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte (EXPANDED EDITION)
Piece image
This episode deals with songs about birds or have bird(s) in the title or subject

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 26:57
Fireworks (Version One) EXPANDED EDITION
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte (EXPANDED EDITION)
Piece image
This is the LONG version of the 10 Min Sound Byte - Songs about Fireworks

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 25:22
Lost Weekend Video finds new ways to entertain in the digital age
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lost Weekend Storefront on Valencia Street., Credit: Audrey Dilling
A couple on an evening stroll down Valencia Street comes to a stop outside Lost Weekend Video. They’re peering in through the big front window...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:33
Gender Gifted
From: Kathy Tu
Caption: Portrait of Lady Di
Vernon Porter loves people--talking to them, helping them, singing to them. As his radio personality, the fabulous Lady Di, he's able to broadcast ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Ham Radio Is Proud To Be Amateur
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Piece image
Ham radio hobbyists have been DIY since day one. They build their own equipment and create their own communities.

Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Factsheet Five
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Piece image
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 1
Diane... A Twin Peaks Audio Documentary
From: Mark Packham
Piece image
Diane... is an audio documentary that explores the world of Twin Peaks-fandom.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Media Fast
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
Piece image
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
02: Foley Follies
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Piece image
You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:06
  • Purchases: 1
Revivalist Radio...on Stage
From: Daniel Gross
Piece image
It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
Casa Rico
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
Piece image
Lenny Rico and wife Cindy talk about inheriting the longest running Italian-American radio show from Lenny’s parents, Emelino and Mary Rico. Their...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:52
Bass/Super(sonic) Structure
From: Daniel Makagon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Audio documentary explores the uses of loud car stereo systems.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 14:49
Ghost Bikes
From: Mark Saldaña
Piece image
In Portland, OR, and across the United States, Ghost Bikes mark the sites of fatal bicycle-autombile collisions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 8
For the love of synthesizer
From: Dan Trudeau
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A New Hampshire man has made his home into a shrine to synthesizers

Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland


  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Nancy Buirski
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Adrian Boyes profiles Nancy Buirski, founder of the Full Frame Documentary Festival

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Wire Episode 8: The Digital Democracy of Sound
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Wire
Piece image
The digital revolution in music.

Bought by KUOW, KVNF, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KALW and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 52:55
  • Purchases: 16
The Wire Episode 5: The Sound Around
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Wire
Piece image
Episode five of The Wire, this show explores the overwhelming presence of music in our day-to-day lives.

Bought by KUOW, KALW, KRUA, KXOT Public Radio, WMNF and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 13
The Wire Episode 4: Good Vibrations
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Wire
Piece image
Episode four of The Wire, this episode investigates the birth of the synthesizer.

Bought by KUOW, KALW, KRUA, KXOT Public Radio, WMNF and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 12
The Wire Episode 3: Going Electric
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Wire
Piece image
Episode three of The Wire, this episode discusses the impact of elecricity on the guitar.

Bought by KUOW, KALW, KRUA, WMNF, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 52:55
  • Purchases: 12