PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Fisherman's Wife
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jackie Hannam fell in love with a fisherman and so far their life together is often a life apart.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 2
A Movement For Rosa
From: Richie Duchon
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Composer Mark Camphouse and conductor Marcellus Brown recall the time they wrote and performed a piece of music about, for and with Rosa Parks.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2005
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Good guy winner at last
From: Michael Jackman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What it means to win a radio contest, after losing one 30 years ago.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 03:26
Interstate
From: Barrett Wolf
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Narrative by Biker/Poet J. Barrett Wolf

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 01:27
Voice Box and Flute
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
Sarah Green was a professional flute player who came to learn that she had ALS.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
Tiger Balm and Batman Comics
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Edward Lee has questions about his family’s immigration to Canada, and the only person he can ask is his father.

Bought by WTIP, KCUR, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 4
Just Live With It
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Rick Cepella was out in the woods trying to capture the beauty of rural British Columbia when a small tick lodged in his scalp and giving him Lyme ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:50
The Education of Sarah Brodie
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Sarah Brodie, an art therapist, thought she could help Adele Lerner cope with living in a nursing home but in the end it is Adele who teaches Sarah...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 1
Tough Love
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Divorced mom Lisa Wojna can understand why her boys tried drugs but now she wants them to stop.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 1
The March of the Living
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Two journalism students in Toronto decide to attend the March of the Living and visit the Holocaust sites in Poland.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:41
Runaway Clowns
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Elia Kirby explores the pit falls and prat falls of theatre life and wonders whether it is the best life for his daughters.

Bought by WTIP and KUSP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Mama's List
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jennifer Dunville drives to Prince Edward Island to engage her grandmother in a showdown, of sorts.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
Only Shooting Stars
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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A disillusioned teacher is about to meet one little boy who will change everything.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
A Colonel's Daughter
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Makiko Ishihara of Toronto travels to her childhood home in Japan to face some difficult memories.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, and WETA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 3
In Louisiana, hurricane aftermath still unfolding
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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A reporter's notebook takes an inside look at the current state of New Orleans after the storms.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2005
  • Length: 09:28
Blissful Oblivion
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jess Perlitz visits her grandmother and discovers that coping with memory loss is as much about the present as it is about the past.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 2
My Pregnancy
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Dana Hennessey is 17, going to high school, and expecting a baby this spring.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
Long Time Home
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For singer Michelle Rumball "the voice" is the person so when she lost her voice, she lost her sense of who she was.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
She's Just Like Me
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Leah Rumack seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 3
Honeymoon in Dieppe
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Sally Crooks reflects on the ghosts of Dieppe.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 1
Listening To Grandmere
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Genevieve Metropolis’s grandmother recorded her stories on tape with strict instructions: Do not listen until after I'm gone.

Bought by WTIP and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
You Must Be Ready
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Marianne Apostolides has always known there were things about her father’s past that were deliberately kept secret.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Eyes of God
From: Laura Spero
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A personal essay on finding rythm and rhyme in the chaos of New York City.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 18:56
Test of Faith
From: KEDM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the buckle of the Bible Belt, a priest and a teenager reflect on faith in God after the hurricanes.

Bought by BSR Radio and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
Musicians on the Record: Steve Forbert
From: WXPN
Series: Musicians on the Record
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Folk singer Steve Forbert muses about his favorite album, "Paris 1919". He says this John Cale record is very good for the subconscious.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KUT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2005
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2

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