PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

177 results


The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Piece image
Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
The Big Pond #24: Being Muslim in the Midwest
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Piece image
What is it like to be Muslim nowadays in the Midwest, the so-called Heartland of the US? And how does that reality connect to the one in Germany? O...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 2
Choice, Church and State: Poland, Ireland, the USA : Women Rising 37
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
Abortion and reproductive rights for women are being fought over across the globe. Women Rising Radio visits with key organizers of the Polish Wome...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hallelujah Farewell: Chris Hedges and Reverend Billy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges explains why President Donald Trump is just the predictable end of a long sad history of American avaric...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 1
Fandango at the Vote: SURJ & Arturo O'Farrill
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Looking back on the midterm elections, we ask the tough questions about white women voters and race, then get introduced to the hi-pinky salute acr...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, authors of "How Democracies Die"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
Piece image
An interview about the downfall of creeping authoritarianism in Europe and Latin America and insight how American democracy could be undermined.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:16
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps One Small Step: Amina Amdeen and Joseph Weidknecht
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Piece image
Two people on opposite ends of the political spectrum reflect on the moment that brought them together nearly two years ago: a protest just days af...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
Dig Deep - Rural Questions for our Next Governor part 1
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Dig Deep
Piece image
All year we had been meeting the people running for Governor on KAXE/KBXE and had planned a Governor's forum in Grand Rapids one week after primari...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 19:13
The Untold Story of Iron and Water, the new book by Minnesota Environmental Icon Grant Merritt
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
Piece image
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with pioneering environment...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:49
Women Lead On Screen: Helen Clark & Gaylene Preston
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Women's leadership on the screen, in the streets and on the world stage. This week, New Zealand's former prime minister, Helen Clark and filmmaker ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: May 18 Memorial in Gwangju, Korea, Credit: May 18 Memorial Foundation
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
183: Roadtrippin' / 184: Do Protests Still Matter?, 7/8/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Piece image
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:56
Crossing East: Relations
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
Caption: Ellen Choy-Asians4BlackLives, Credit: Brooke Anderson Photography
Crossing East: Relations is one-hour documentary special produced by Dmae Roberts, executive producer of MediaRites’ Crossing East series with Roby...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 5
Anti-Semitism Fears Grow Throughout the United States
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Piece image
Threats against Jewish Community Centers and Cemeteries have increased since the beginning of 2017. Matthew Wieselthier investigates the fears fro...

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
Shades of Gray
From: Ahri Golden
Piece image
From award-winning producers Ahri Golden + Jonathan Mitchell, Shades of Gray, is an hourlong audio mosaic and stark portrayal of our relationship t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 51:10
  • Purchases: 1
Citizenship in the US Virgin Islands
From: Jason Klarl
Caption: Gerard Emanuel, Credit: DaraMonifah Cooper
March 31, 2017 marks the centennial of the transfer of three Caribbean islands from Denmark to the United States. But are Virgin Islanders US Citi...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:59
#770- Trumps first orders
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
The new President start issuing executive orders and some of those are cutting back expenses. Learn who and what is targeted and what it might mean...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
#5: Munir, News Face and Oranges
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
Piece image
We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
15 Years After 9/11, Still Searching for Monsters to Destroy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
A new era began on September 11, 2001 - one marked by an unending War on Terror, dragnet surveillance, and attacks on people perceived to be Muslim...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Flying Solo at Fringe 2016 with Carol Colley's A Chornicle from the Absolute at Large and Debra Leigh's Saving Superman
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
Piece image
August in Minnesota means a lot of things, mosquitos, jokes about the humidity, and swimming in the normally frozen lakes and rivers. It also mean...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
The Sacrifice of Khizr Khan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
EP 19: Relative Capitalism
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
Piece image
What is the future of American capitalism? Can it lie in consensus decision-making in public spaces? about defining what is and what is not product...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 04:33
Ep 18: Questionable Capitalism
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
Piece image
What does equine capital in a Grandpa farm have to do with Turing Pharmaceuticals and its bid to raise the price of a life-saving drug by 50 times?...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 08:57