PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...
Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Eli Mcamis is 14 years old. He and five other young teens sit around a table, each rolling dice and flipping through game manuals — thick binders, ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 09:03
Back in April, a 48 foot-long sperm whale was found on a beach in Pacifica called Mori Point. A lot of people had gathered around the whale to bear...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 08:29
- Purchases: 1
A profile the pilots who guide container ships... cruise ships and oil tankers... into Long Beach harbor.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 11:31
- Purchases: 2
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...
Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 2
Ambessa Cantave and I are taking a walk in West Oakland, looking for an old music venue he used to go to. He’s having some trouble finding the plac...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 06:57
Sylvie Rokab talks unexpected relatives, the hidden dangers of city life, and dancing with Liam Neeson.
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 20:50
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 10:09
How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 07:06
Inspired by an Old Spice commercial as a kid, Kieran Burke always wanted to be a surfer. But learning proved difficult with no one to teach him.
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 04:39
A 5-1/2 minute, sound-rich ride through the audio-guided Bjork exhibit (much lambasted in the press) at New York's Museum of Modern Art, March 8 th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 07:51
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Gay Talese interviews Bob Walsh, one of the ironworkers who built the the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge,...
Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 3
Lee Millam has lived in high-rise blocks of flats in London for years. In this podcast he explores the highs and lows of living high up, and also ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 09:23
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
M.J. Levy Dickson is a visual artist from Nantucket. She uses glass to create environmental installations, but she did not always work like this. P...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 3
Everyone’s felt it. A breeze, a gust, a storm. Wind. Produced for the Transom Story Workshop.
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 07:53
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...
- Added: Dec 31, 2013
- Length: 05:00
From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 04:52
Solar Flares can wreak havoc on earth so small satellites are being designed to better detect them.
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 07:05
Pick up America is the nation’s first coast-to-coast litter pick up. KALW's Laura Flynn met the clean up volunteers when they arrived in San Franci...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 02:33
Less than a year ago, Happy Lot Farm and Garden was just another plot of land slated for development. Today, it's an urban farm. And places like it...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 06:55
