PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical Anniversaries
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Collectors music - R&B from the 1950s to 70s.
R&B is a catch-all phrase that represents the then integration of "race records" and "popular" mus...
- Added: Apr 07, 2013
- Length: 02:49:40
A tribute to the 20th-century Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002)
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 58:30
"I have been challenged to fight for saying 'can't we all get along.' I’ve had people say I want to kick your ass for saying that." - Rodney King
I...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 06:48
- Purchases: 1
Shelli Wright and her son, Graham Haggett, remember his grandmother Sandra Lee Wright, who was killed on September 11, 2001. Shelli Wright and her ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
In honor of the 5th Anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota poet Todd Boss has composed 35 poems consisting of 35 words pe...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 18:39
- Purchases: 2
VoiceBox celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial birthday with conversation and song when Peter Glazer, professor of Performance Studies at the Unive...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 16:58
- Purchases: 2
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Mar 10, 2012
- Length: 49:56
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, Andy serenades you with Jewish love songs and even a couple lustful songs leading up to Valentine's Day.
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 59:00
This is part two of a special two part series dedicated to exploring the life and music of George Harrison in commemoration of the ten year anniver...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and WNKU
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 2
This is part one of a special two part series dedicated to exploring the life and music of George Harrison in commemoration of the ten year anniver...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and WNKU
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 2
In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 31:50
A twenty-five year old Marine veteran suffering from PTSD has found peace through making paper from his old uniforms. He's also found his voice...a...
Bought by KRUA, Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 04, 2010
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 4
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 27:00
The history of Mary Gibbs and Itasca State Park & her showdown with the lumber industry as told by historian Dr. Janet Rith-Najarian.
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 18:07
Fred Migliore is joined by legendary NY radio personality, Pete Fornatale, who's new book "Back To The Garden" provides incredible insight to this...
- Added: Jul 31, 2009
- Length: 01:57:53
- Purchases: 2
On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
Documentary composition by Marjorie Van Halteren and Helen Engelhardt featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - December 2008 is t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2008
- Length: 24:33
- Added: Oct 28, 2008
- Length: :31
Will Wright spoke with a man whose attempt to save a stranger's life left a mark on his.
- Added: Oct 06, 2008
- Length: 05:03
Recorded at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square on the 50th anniversary of the day the Club 47 opened in 1958, the program (in the best of folk t...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMNF, Chris Boros, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 16, 2008
- Length: 58:24
- Purchases: 4
Approaching the April 16 anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings, this show explores how healing can start to take place after atrocities, near and ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2008
- Length: 29:19
On March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever to strike North America sparked tsunamis that destroyed a village. Paul Timothy Selanoff lived to te...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Mar 24, 2008
- Length: 06:39
- Purchases: 1
The great grandson of a Norwegian homesteader tells his family's story in five scenes.
Bought by The PRX Podcast
- Added: Jan 02, 2008
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
Jazz singer Chris Calloway, daughter to the legendary singer and band leader Cab Calloway, died August 7, 2008. Chris recalls her father's legacy ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2007
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
