PRX - Pieces for Topic: News
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From: Paul Fischer
A "newsical" to mark the 50th anniversary of the kidnap of Patty Hearst by The Symbionese Liberation Army ( Feb 4 1974).
I was the “lucky” New...
- Added: Jan 28, 2024
- Length: 28:31
KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 26:03
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
The Erie Canal changed the world by connecting New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. But author and historian Michael Keene says...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: :56
- Purchases: 6
The replica Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre has sailed out of the Great Lakes, wrapping up a summer visit marred by a dispute over pilots fees. ...
Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WMUK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 03:24
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
WTIP's Ann Possis chatted Dec. 7 with John Watkins, professor of English at the U of MN, who specializes in sovereignty, queenship, and British his...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 16:03
Three days late and a dollar short isn’t that unusual for the stoner lifestyle. Vying for a legalized status in the all American tradition of a sit...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Profile of artists in the famed Carnegie Towers fighting eviction
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 18, 2007
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 2
