PRX - Pieces for Format: Debut (not aired nationally)
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Camels are known for their ability to travel long distances across the desert without water.
But they’re also becoming an increasingly important s...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 03:41
Brooke Tanner and Ken Wolff are different from one another. One's a young woman trying to start a huge project, the other's at the end of a long ca...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:55:29
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
When a species goes extinct, that’s usually the end of the story. We don’t exactly have dinosaurs or dodo birds running around these days.
But some...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 10:11
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 19:57
- Purchases: 1
The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 06:37
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Former USA Vice President, Al Gore was an elected official for a quarter century before becoming the poster boy for climate change after the 2000 p...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 09:43
A sound picture of nature's restful season of change and anticipation, along with its accompanying human happenings, all framed by music as varied ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 59:35
- Purchases: 2
Prince Edward Island is known the world over for its mussels. Nothing quite like them and those produced on PEI account for 80 percent of all musse...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 27:06
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 1
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:55
Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
While visiting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, I had the good fortune to meet a Maya subsistence farmer named Bartolo. When Bartolo found out I was int...
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 05:05
A sound collage exploring the fringe world of plant consciousness and communication along with its peculiar relationship with music. At some point...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :00
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is like a republic unto itself, much like Key West, the Conch Republic. On the Scotch Bonnet Republic islanders have...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 24:36
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
My high school used to drop groups of kids off in the woods in order to teach them survival skills. There was no adult supervision.
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 11:06
