PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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A Trans-Atlantic flight, and the lessons gleaned from it.

  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:48
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Tent Show Radio host Michael Perry talks about his Olympic shortcomings and welcomes guest Kathy Mattea.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, WDSE, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:20
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The Mighty Sparrow
Scott Britton has never been to Trinidad, but he really loves calypso.

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Jim is a young man who has everything in the world but direction.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 17:10
Caption: Author, teacher and altablueskies.com contributor Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Most of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about garbage, but author, teacher and altablueskies.com contributor Catherine Breese does. In this e...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 10:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Our SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES selection this month features a 2001 public reading by Maxine Kumin, who shares poetry on a a variety of topics from b...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Ned Averill-Snell remembers a side-of-the-road breakdown after a summer Shakespeare show, where a roadside diner crowd had to face a shaggy actor s...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:45
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Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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Everyone loves a good happy hour - a chance to socialize and sip spirits. But what about happy hour in an assisted living facility?

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
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Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:12
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Author and feminist pop cultural critic Roxane Gay talks about her upcoming novel, her approach to telling Haitian stories, and what writers can le...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 39:22
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
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It’s the end of 2012, and producers Mike Osborne, Leslie Chang, and Miles Traer get together to chat about the past year of Generation Anthropocene...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:18
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Detail from Albert Appel's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B. Klein
In the nether regions of New Jersey is a summer camp that uses pianos and shovels to break social barriers...they've been at it since the 1960s. A...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 09:16
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:32
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What Neil Gaiman has to tell his children and children's children.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: New York Times Bestselling Author Susan Orlean, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
SUSAN ORLEAN - Best-selling Author of "The Orchid Thief" and "Rin Tin Tin." JOHN RODERICK - Talented American musician and writer. PORTLAND CELLO...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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What happens when a skylight lets more than light into your apartment? Contains "asshole" at 00:40; "whore" at 01:19 "f" word at 00:53, 01:29, 01:38

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
Caption: Jim Shepard
The author of six novels, such as PROJECT X, Jim Shepard has taken to writing short fiction. His last three books are short story collections, inc...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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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