PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Caption: Salem Tewelde (left) and her cousin Jerusaliem Gebreziabher (right) during a trip to Sudan to document stories of refugees fleeing violence in Tigray., Credit: Courtesey of Salem Tewelde
On this three-year anniversary of war in Tigray, members of the diaspora spoke about their loss, grief and commitment to solidarity.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 04:50
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In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 34:47
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Which famous Russian composer was born on April 1st, 1873? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we play the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, with selecti...

Bought by WRTI, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), Interlochen Public Radio, WBAA and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 11
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A special episode, created in partnership with Queens Memory and the online newspaper The CITY, on grief and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 23:17
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Jennifer Brouwer lost her mother to Pancreatic Cancer in 2001, in wanting to honor her mother’s memory she created the Janet Phleger Foundation, a...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 1
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A heartfelt phoned-in story from a woman recalling something special about her late cat. (Excerpt from my pilot "For Kindred Spirits.")

Bought by WOUB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:08:20
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In honor of Suicide Prevention Day, Rock School discusses suicide throughout the music industry.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:55
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Andy Goodling tells to his father, Scott, about his boyfriend who passed away almost two years ago, and why he kept their relationship a secret.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three children's picture ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
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James Siems is an eighth grader at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. He likes crosscountry skiing and soccer. He recently wrote a poem ins...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: AIDS awareness painting in Chimoio, Mozambique. , Credit: Courtesy of Flickr user Ton Rulkens.
Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, sophisticated drug cocktails known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 38:57
  • Purchases: 1
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The other person makes a triangle love.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:39
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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: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Chad Simpson and Monica Berlin talk with Assistant Editor John McCarthy about the under-appreciated, rich cultu...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:27
From: WHJE
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This is an adapted version of Dear Mom, depicting the life of a young girl in the wake of her mother’s suicide and the domino effect that her mothe...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 09:19
Caption: ...the anonymous collaboration called humanity..., Credit: Susan Cook
Great affirmation of human purpose is the victory for those who watch the runners and wheelchairs racers come in at the Boston Marathon. They are ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 06:13
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Pat remembers his step-mother, Barbara Jean, from the first time they met, to the last time he saw her. Though the 11 years in between were sometim...

Bought by WGXC and KUT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Antelope trying to move through deep snow , Credit: David Grubbs, Billings Gazette
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
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A woman shares her decision to stop trying to help her mentally ill mother.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:27
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A man reluctantly decides to sever ties with his father.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 04:08
Caption: Baghdad's traffic, Credit: Photo courtesy of AFP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Harry Markopolos has written a book about his futile decade-long effort to expose Bernie Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme.
Harry Markopolos tried for nearly ten years to expose Bernard Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme, but it didn't do any good. Why didn’t a...

Bought by KPIK-LP, Remix Radio, KUT, KUOW, and EconomyBeat Podcast


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 5