PRX: Here’s The Pitch
Current Berkman People and Projects 2013-04-10
This week’s ideas for stations: Journeys inside and out, award-winners galore on PRX, and timely picks.
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April 9, 2013 PRX: Here’s the Pitch
Hi friend of PRX,
Finally.
The game of Summer is underway. At PRX, we’re always on the mound sending some easy ones your way: the latest Hidden Kitchens special from the Kitchen Sisters, new voices from SALT, a special on the scandalous birth of modern art, a serious look at what happens to autistic kids as they reach adulthood, archival gems, and something for Pete Seeger’s birthday.
It’s a swing and a …HIT, John
Journeys
Inside and Out
Take a listening journey with a man who set foot over 4,000 miles, coast to coast… with a microphone. It’s a coming of age story and a portrait of this country – big-hearted, wild, innocent, and wise.
From Transom/Atlantic Public Media, Jay Allison, and producer Andrew Forsthoefel.
- Looking inside our genes: Mapping Eliza lets you follow along as one woman gets her genome sequenced, and faces what the results mean.
- Taking inspiration from the book The Things They Carried, this series asks U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan what they carry with them, physically and emotionally.
- Another great journey story: Travels with Mike: In Search of America 50 Years After Steinbeck.
Winning
Treat for your ears
- State of the Re:Union’s episode As Black We Wish to Be just won a Gracie Award!
- Edward R. Murrow Award-winners and Peabody Award-winners galore.
- Zeitfunk! It’s prestigious… the most licensed pieces, stations and producers on PRX.
Do It Now
Timely and upcoming
- For Earth Day, issues like… what was the carbon footprint of your dinner? Plus many more.
- For Poetry Month, two artists of Climbing PoeTree on using words to inspire. More for Poetry Month.
- For Memorial Day from StoryCorps, a World War II veteran remembers a German soldier he killed in combat. More for Memorial Day.
Other Good Stuff
- Are you part geek, part radio producer? PRX’s STEM Story Project is open for applications until April 22.
- Don’t miss the chance to air our American Graduate special Left Behind, Dropping Out before the schoolyear is up. Plus: many more AmGrad pieces.
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Timely Picks
Earth Day: April 22
Exclusive Series
The Moth Radio Hour
True stories told weekly. State of the Re:Union
Communities, experiences… life. New season coming soon. Sound Opinions
This week: remembering Roger Ebert. Snap Judgment
Fate, fights, gratitude, Snap. American Routes
The iconic program on the music of America. Here’s The Thing
Alec Baldwin interviews icons like no one else.WTF with Marc Maron
The hugely popular comedy podcast goes radio. LA Theatre Works
Contemporary radio drama. Public Radio Remix
Are you listening yet? PRX Podcasts
99% Invisible: A show about design with Roman Mars. 
HowSound: What’s behind great radio? 
Blank on Blank finds lost interviews. You listen. 
Latitude News: Podcast and broadcast length; local and global perspectives. Forward to a friend
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Earth Day image from Patrick Boury.