PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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If Lucille Were a Person...
From: Zak Rosen
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Blues scholar on the importance of B.B. King

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio New Zealand, WABE, WTJU, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 6
Home Planet: On the move
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Moving forces you to take stock of what you have, what you want and what you need.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
From Yale to Hack [Two Versions]
From: WFUV
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Guyon Knight Dropped Out of Yale Graduate School to Drive A Taxi. Why?

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 10:26
Kids on the Farm
From: WFUV
Series: Notes from the Farm
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Farmer Cindy Jones talks about how growing up on a farm has affected her kids.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 03:34
A Loyal Helper
From: WFUV
Series: Notes from the Farm
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Farmer Cindy Jones tells us about her weekly helper.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 03:23
Home Planet: (Christmas) Do you hear what I hear?
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Holiday songs and old familiar carols are the soundtrack of this time of year. But do we all hear the same thing?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2006
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: On the move
From: Spokane Public Radio
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It isn't easy to pack up a life and move. But there are advantages. Moving gives you a chance to look at what you own and what owns you. Moving giv...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
About the Video Game and its Relation to the Soul
From: Matthew Sahr
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Why do I play videogames?

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 09:56
A Musician's Life: Alejandro Escovedo
From: WXPN
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Alejandro Escovedo music is an eclectic mix of his life experiences--from his childhood in Texas to his exposure to New York and San Francisco's pu...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Aimee Mann
From: WXPN
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The music business may have toughened Aimee Mann, but her songwriting remains compassionate and sensitive.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and Musicians' Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Rodney Crowell
From: WXPN
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Singer songerwriter Rodney Crowell says his songwriting has gotten more personal with age. He also talks about working on the song "I Walk the Lin...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: Laura Veirs
From: WXPN
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Seattle based musician Laura Veirs says she had to appreciate the little victories in her quest to become a full-time performer.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Joseph Arthur
From: WXPN
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For singer songwriter Joseph Arthur making music is an act of liberation.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: Charlie Musselwhite
From: WXPN
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Blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite reflects on his life as a blues musician. The blues has helped him through hard times, including the mu...

Bought by KCSM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WQJC, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 4
A Musician's Life: Janis Ian
From: WXPN
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Folk singer Janis Ian reflects on her long career including mistakes she's made along the way.

Bought by KMXT and KUT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Roald Hoffmann
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann believes the middle is a good place to be, both in life and in science.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 4
Unpredictable Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Marc Steiner's personal essay of the trip he organized with three veterans to return to Vietnam 30 years after the fall of Saigon.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Two teens, one from Israel, one from Lebanon, hash things out, Part 2
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! A teenager from Lebanon has a conversation with a teenager from Israel about politics and life, Part 2

  • Added: Sep 20, 2006
  • Length: 06:48
The Physics of Peace
From: Bernadette Cahill
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How to bring Peace into your Life and the world

  • Added: Sep 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:55
Sound Artist Steve Peters: The Subtle Sounds of Nature
From: Paul Ingles
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Sound Artist Steve Peters captures the subtle sounds of nature by patiently recording in central New Mexico

Bought by KUER, SALTcast Podcast, PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, Western Folklife Center Media and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2006
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 8
From Biking In Sweden...To Biking In Texas
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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When Zoe's family spent their summers in Sweden, all she had to get around on was a bike...but could a car-using Texan like Zoe get used to it?

Bought by WGXC, BSR Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 11, 2006
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Do Right!
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Practical Perspecitves
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Integrity

  • Added: Sep 10, 2006
  • Length: 03:01
More Than Vegetables
From: WFUV
Series: Notes from the Farm
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Organic farmer Cindy Jones explains why her customers take away more than fresh vegetables.

Bought by WTIP, WMUK, and WUAL


  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3
Legacy
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Story Salon Live
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Salon regular and Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty discovers an unnoticed gift in a crowded train station.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Valentine's Day
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Story Salon Live
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Julio Martinez answers the telephone on Valentine's Day and is pulled into a whirlwind of memory.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1

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