PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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In the early 20th century, a potent wave of anti-Semitism began to sweep across Europe. Fuelled by deep-rooted prejudices and exacerbated by econom...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:14
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Jim and Kristi Miller
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:47
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Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...

Bought by KMUN and WJCU


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:40
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Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: "Long-Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Producer Joe Boyd remembers musician Nick Drake.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Isaac Rosenberg
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Big Walter Smith
This week, in honor of Big Walter Smith, we focus on the blues in Minnesota. The feature segment is an intimate interview recorded in 2010 in which...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTIP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 3
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The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past... Music by my friend pq (You'll never Find us Here) and Sol Rezza on freemusicarchive.org

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Jesse James was shot in April 1882. The objects in the home were sold at auction, photographs of the dead outlaw were reproduced, and the house in ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Dead and Gone, 2009 - Ink on paper, Credit: Samantha Sherry
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:03:20
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An innovative story about the rediscovery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Brinkley, Arkansas that blends interviews and an original song by Sufja...

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 10
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5