PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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Two stories about leaving home… and (sometimes) looking back.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 51:07
- Purchases: 1
When Tamir Levy’s brother asked him whether he planned to circumcise his soon-to-be-born son, the answer was obvious. After all, roughly 99% of Jew...
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 32:57
For some people, such as Tali Aronsky, life is a meal. So how can chicken drumsticks, kubeh soup, hard boiled eggs, lamb biryani and lahme bi ajeen...
- Added: Jun 22, 2022
- Length: 17:09
A behind-the-scenes account of a scandal that rocked “Pa’amoney Ha’Yovel” (Bells of Jubilee), Israel’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. Yet the fi...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 10:28
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
The demand for affordable housing has reached an all-time high in both Europe and North America. In this episode, Tomma Suki investigates the housi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 1
Change - Tony Lindsay is a producer and director, known for "Where Hearts Lie" (2016). The film features such notable actors as Clifton Powell ("Ra...
- Added: Mar 19, 2022
- Length: 01:42
In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 28:48
- Purchases: 1
Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...
Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 06, 2022
- Length: 27:02
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Sex - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded thei...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 01:21
How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 1
Sex - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded thei...
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 01:01
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 06:42
Acceptance - Force M.D.'s is a vocal group formed in 1981. Trisco Pearson later joined the group. They released a collection of R&B hits throughout...
- Added: Nov 13, 2021
- Length: 02:29
A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 1
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 1
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
Jacob Wheeler talks about his book Between Light and Shadow and some of the nuances of Guatemalan adoptions. (English, 14 min.)
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 14:20
Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 18:21
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with a variety of Minnesota State Fair exhibitor...
- Added: Aug 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Americans on the East Coast were in awe when Brood X, an enormous group of 17-year cicadas, suddenly emerged from underground to mate. Melissa Gerr...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 2
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 29:10
