PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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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
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The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Guatemalan Connections Part Three: Molly McKenzie was adopted from Guatemala in 1992 by her two moms, now retired navy captains who provided her wi...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
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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
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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
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Working with personal diary entries, Dina Elsayed and Monika Müller-Kroll take listeners on a journey through the seasons to different places in th...

Bought by KMXT and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jim Ledbetter, The Old Trapper , Credit: Jim Ledbetter
The Old Trapper is a true story about frontier living, isolation, and benevolence. It is a poetic audio documentary and its style is fragmentary, i...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 27:14
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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Apartheid’s insidious effect on the family of an American diplomat in South Africa.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KCRW, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
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A few days ago, I was in Berlin Germany on a personal trip, and I decided to interview someone local for my show. The goal was to draw parallels b...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 35:26
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This audio anthology features readings by six poets, including a few who are part of the book co-edited by Cherokee writers Diane Glancy and Linda ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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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
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Caring and Comfort, Credit: Julia Meek
"Healing the hurt" is an ancient and universal custom--well preserved in the finest of musical traditions. Hear how it works on our Folktale of Car...

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Redemption, Credit: Julia Meek
This week's Folktale finds us on the quest of reparation, reclamation and second chances around the musical globe--after all--who doesn't want a sh...

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio), KCMJ Community Radio, WFIU and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 7
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You might have the wisdom of the ancients, but when stuff really hits the fan...even you might need some help. From PRX and NPR, Snap Judgment prou...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Snap Judgment
Sure they want to take your picture, have your autograph... but for all the wrong reasons. On the next Snap Judgment, from PRX and NPR, we proudly ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Host Brian Balogh talks with former aid worker David Koren about his experiences during the Biafran airlift in the late 1960s, and explores whether...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
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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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
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KBRP Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 22
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Morning Stories, Show Three expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 21, 2007
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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An award-winning documentary that explores the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the intertwined stories of an Israeli woman and a Palesti...

Bought by KSFR, XRAY.fm, KLCC, KPCC, KGLT and more


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 38:21
  • Purchases: 6