PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
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As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of the FEHLER podcast, Sylvia Cunningham, deputy editor at our partner radio station KCRW Berlin, compiles five stories that show j...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 50:35
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
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In this radio travelogue, culture writer and journalist Bilal Qureshi explores Germany’s capital Berlin to find out about local origins, regulation...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1
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An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode we hear from Saleem Haddad, author of Guapa. Saleem explores his Palestinian identity through storytelling and discusses shaming, g...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 33:30
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While hitch-hiking through Serbia, I met a refugee.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
Caption: Alexander the Great
What would you do if you had 100Million Euros (or more!) to spend on a country? What would you spend it on? The leaders of Macedonia chose statues...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:58
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A Trans-Atlantic flight, and the lessons gleaned from it.

  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:48
Caption: GLF Participants, Credit: GLF
Audio Revolution presents stories from the Global Leadership Forum, a program that aims to cultivate culturally competent leaders from around the w...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Shanthi Siva is originally from India, and now lives in Rochester Minnesota with her family. She has a Masters Degree in English Language and Liter...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Anthony Garza has an appearance that seems to mirror everyone's expectation of him. Middle Easterners, Americans and Hispanics strangers enjoy pic...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:27
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Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Runners line up at the start of the Great Limerick Run 2012
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:31
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Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Visit countries where the standard of living is higher than ours

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
I hold up my pants with suspenders

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: :46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Read Mark Twain's English translation of The Jumping Frog

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A Chinese plane filled with yak dung crashed in Tibet this morning.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2009
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:07