PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
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In today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Sean Donahue and Austin Southers from Cen...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:05
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
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Art is best experienced in person. But what happens when events get cancelled during a pandemic? Artists do what they do best: improvise.

  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 15:47
Caption: Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs, San Francisco, CA 7/12/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk compassion, snap judgments, and the Michael Bay button.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 14:08
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The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:23
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Every critic has blind spots. I’m sure I have more than a few. The fact that it’s taken me this long to go see Coco, the latest feature from Disney...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:52
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There’s a special place in my heart for silly comedies. I realize I don’t review these kinds of movies on the show very often, and that’s partly be...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:46
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John Sayles talks art, timing, and why no one else edits his films.

  • Added: May 20, 2017
  • Length: 11:13
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Ido Fluk talks tension, mixed blessings, and not being asked to dance.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:27
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:03
Caption: The Kindness of Time
Winner of 2016 BBC Best Online Drama. An inspirational one hour play for Advent and Christmas about waiting for love to appear in midwinter. "Th...

Bought by WUTC, KVSC, Interlochen Public Radio, KTXK, KRPS and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
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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
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
Caption: Poster Art, Credit: Käthe Kollwitz
(The entire 1 hour (52:19) show is available starting on October 13, 2015) In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, Midsummer Sound Comp...

Bought by KUNM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KICI Iowa City, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: John Krokidas, San Francisco, CA 10/7/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 16:44
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The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, built in 1910, is a rustic theater with 328 old-fashioned seats and high wooden beams. It’s not exactly the k...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:59
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Dianne Dettmann's new book chronicles a widow's journey through grief and to recovery.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE -- Writer/director Sean Durkin and actor Elizabeth Olsen on identity, family, and honesty.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:02
Caption: Vera Farmiga, San Francisco, CA 7/19/11 , Credit: Andrea Chase
HIGHER GROUND -- Vera Farmiga talks directing for the first time, adapting someone else's life, and why faith matters.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:59
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A radio drama written, edited, and produced by Elsa Lankford (elsa4sound@gmail.com). "Too Much of a Good Thing" is what happens when you mix myster...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 47:29
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Welcome to that place that stands between us and sleep.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
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'tis the network that's dying, not fine television

  • Added: Dec 03, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
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First comes trust. Then comes control.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2