PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Episode 40: David Orenstein, Tyson Gill – Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles, Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby and Martini podcast from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY, with Dr. David Orenstein, Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY system senior ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:26:32
Episode 35: Joseph Campo – Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Joseph Campo (accepting his gift of FAT ENZO tee shirts)
Bobby speaks with Joseph Campo, executive producer at Grassroots Films and the director of the St. Francis House. The two discuss a range of topics...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:38
The State of Faith
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 3
Chapter 24 - An Adirondack Summer
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:05
Marshall McLuhan, what are you doin'?
From: Catherine Gough-Brady
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The life and ideas of media theorist Marshall McLuhan and the effect of those ideas on 1960s Canada. Meet his son, Eric, his biographer, Terrence G...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 51:48
Nuns on Trial
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A Vatican investigation into American nuns

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
  • Purchases: 5
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
The D-Word
From: Ed Prosser
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Why is death such a difficult subject to talk about? From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our complex relationship with death...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:30
Walking a Labyrinth
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, July 20, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Although she was physically tiny ... just four foot eleven ... we saw her on television living an outrageous sort of large life, an amazing roller ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
The Three Card Monte
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Carolyn Barnwell
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Elaine and Francis- a nun and a priest- fell deeply in love and left the Church so they could be married. Nearly 40 years later, on Jan. 3rd 2010, ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 8 - Lies and Taxes
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A woman talks about her decision to be honest with the IRS.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
Stan the Evangelist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Formerly a chaplain at Maine State Prison, Reverend Stan Moody is on a crusade to change the way we treat our criminals. Some of his parishioners ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 4
Only For My King
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Benuel Esch grew up Amish in Lancaster Pennsylvania, but twenty years ago he started asking questions. Though he left to explore other paths, he fi...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 4
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...

Bought by WMPG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 5
A Quiet Life: The Cork Poor Clares
From: Conor O'Toole
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A portrait of a hermetic way of life in modern Ireland, as told from behind monastery walls.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2010
  • Length: 58:19
Blessed
From: Daniel Makagon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Audio documentary about blessing of the animals.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 11:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Death of my Grandma and the Concomitant Existential Dread
From: andy boyd
Series: I Am Not a Metaphor
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Andy's Grandma dies.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
Jay Ipson and his family escaped Nazi persecution often by the skin of their teeth. But after liberation they had to contend with the Soviets. And ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Thinness and Salvation
From: Sarah Yahm
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 5
Muslim Terrorists in Hollywood
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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Palestinian American Muhaideen Batah paid a visit to Ms. Toland?s World History class. He spoke about Islam, and in this piece he talks about how M...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
God is my Comfort
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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Janell interviews her mother, Tammi Boros, about her religious beliefs

  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 01:41
Two Weeks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Laurie Williams (aka Crow) is preparing to die in the next two weeks.

Bought by HowSound, SALTcast Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Red Crystal Palace ~ 3: Where will you be five years from now?
From: Fereshteh Toosi
Series: Red Crystal Palace
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RED CRYSTAL PALACE is a mobile tent with a crystal ball inside, operated by a nurse seeking predictions about the future from people on the street.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2007
  • Length: 01:31