PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
Raider of the Lost Ark
From: Jake Warga
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Looking for the not-so-lost Ark and finding something else

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 4
Talk About It: The Jewish Mourning Process
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Grieving for the deceased... and comforting the living.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Half Way - Bus Station
From: WKNO
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The Half Way - Station in Jackson, Tennessee is the oldest operating terminal in the U.S.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Back to Iwo Jima: Navajo code talkers return
From: Ashley Gross
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Four Navajo veterans return to the site of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: No Laughing Matter
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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After the attacks on Sept 11, the world and especially the US created a new subject that was taboo ? the idea of linking the Twin Towers attacks wi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KWCW, and WCOM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Being in the Woods
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Hunters describe experiences they have with wildlife while hunting in the woods

Bought by KMXT, WTIP, and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 3
Careful What You Shoot
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Two men tell stories about gun accidents and talk about the responsibility that comes with handling firearms

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Taking a Life
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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In this show, hunters talk about the experience of taking an animal's life

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
Wheels within Wheels: Jazz Percussionist Nasar Abadey Contemplates Rhythm
From: Aaron Henkin
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Jazz drummer Nasar Abadey demonstrates his skills and shares his thoughts on the nature of rhythm

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KVMR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
Mind Control: Neural Rhythms and the Beat of the Brain
From: Aaron Henkin
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An exploration of the therapeutic technique of neurofeedback and its goal of recalibrating the rhythms of the brain

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 29, 2006
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 3
Crossing East: Shasta Taiko
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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A 1st Person profile of Russel Baba and Jeannie Aiko Mercer of Shasta Taiko

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jon Jang Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of Composer and Pianist Jon Jang

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
You Are Here: 1000 years of mapmaking history in one brief segment
From: Jackson Braider
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A short introduction to the wonderful world of maps

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and KTNA


  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 4
Rebuilding NOLA
From: WFUV
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The audio diary of a Habitat for Humanity volunteer in New Orleans.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 22, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: For Every Atom Belonging to Me?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Winter Caretaker (Summer Mix)
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:36
After the Dumpster
From: Elizabeth Chur
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Drowning in stuff, a hoarder discovers how to let go of some objects.

Bought by KVMR, WDBM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 7
A Ministry of Presence
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chaplin Nash Garabedian ministers aboard visiting tankers and cargo ships in Portland, Maine.

  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:10
Story of a Yup'ik Eskimo rapper
From: Ashley Gross
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A sound-rich portrait of a young Yup'ik Eskimo man who uses rap music to work through his suicidal thoughts

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and KCUR


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 3
Chanukah with Byron
From: Terin Mayer
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Celebrating Chanukah in a dingy dorm lounge with an unlikely companion

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRCB 104.9, and WMPG


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 4
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Veronica McNally reflects on life and work on her daily walk to her job at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
How To Destroy A Book
From: Peter Crimmins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 4
Keeping Secrets
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story about what happens when we hold on to secrets, and what can happen when we let them go...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, Spokane Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 17:15
  • Purchases: 4

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