PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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The Beat: Julia Klatt-Singer - "Baking Bread"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Julia Klatt-Singer writes, and paints, and walks the dog. Her work can be found online and heard on The Real Phonic Radio Hour. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:14
Kathleen’s Encore: Former Opera Singer Says 'Having It All Is Highly Overrated'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
Robotic seals comfort dementia patients but raise ethical concerns
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Paro the seal, charging by its electronic pacifier , Credit: Angela Johnston
At the Livermore Veteran’s Hospital, there are a few animals residents can see: wild turkeys that run around the grounds, rattlesnakes that hide ou...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 2
Collaborating with the Mystery
From: Mary Quintas
Caption: Bud Brown with his trumpazoo and washboard, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bud Brown is known for singing Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be". A few years ago, his relationship to the song changed: Bud's wife became termin...

Bought by XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, KALW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 4
Gemutlichkeit
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Holly Harden reading an excerpt from her cookbook <i>Good Food from Mrs. Sundberg's Kitchen.</i>

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Love Hurts (part 1)
From: Lea Thau
Series: Strangers
Caption: Lea Thau
While doing a story about online dating, Lea gets her heart broken (yet again). (Parts 2 and 3 are also on PRX.)

Bought by Public Radio for All, New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 4
Naomi's World
From: The Truth
Caption: Christina's World, Credit: Andrew Wyeth
A trip to the MOMA takes a surreal turn.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Julia Oxenreider - "Sara"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan "Natures Goodness"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
What happens when you do puppetry?
From: Brian Cauley
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A short documentary on the Banff Centre Puppet Theatre Intensive.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Romance In the Polar Vortex - "When I Say, "Two People, Winter, Teepee, and Dutch Oven," You don't Imagine Romance, But You're Wrong."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Aaron Wenger - "Shared Breath"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
The Beat: Jesse Dermody- "Father"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: James Henderson - "Entropy"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem." The Beat is a daily reminder that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Ella Edbloom - "Balloons"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ella Edbloom is a twelve year old who lives near Duluth. And she loves being outside exploring with her 4-wheeler. She loves to write poetry. Her i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Casiana Siegle - "My Family"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Casiana Siegle was adopted by an American family at fourteen months from the country of Kazakhstan. She's now thirteen years old and living in Dulu...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:19
Our Body Holds Our Life's Truth
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio curious visits with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, a psychotherapist, author and host of Voices in the Family, a weekly public radio program originating f...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing on Mothers - "Potty Training, Pondering the Profound, and the Unknowable."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Dallas Crow - "Playing Ping Pong with My Son"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps MVI: Talana, Willie and Felicia Banks
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Talana, Felicia and Willie Banks
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg: "Snow In the Wind"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Susan Carol Hauser- "If You Were Here"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
Happy New Year
From: The Truth
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You're invited to spend New Year's Eve with Walt Avery.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, Georgia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 5
Good Morning!
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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A collection of remixed "Good Morning" voicemail messages from friends all over the world.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUNM, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3