PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Caption: Being Reasonable
A psycholinguist/minister discusses her belief in non-physical avenues for acquiring knowledge. Then we have a moving conversation with Christophe...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Being Reasonable
David Remington, associate professor in the Dept. of Biology at UNCG, is challenged to reconcile his Christian faith with his scientific endeavors....

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:36:37
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Regretfully, I traveled outside the levees and into the Forbidden Zone. I felt like Kurtz descending into the hellish desert of commercialism, co...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:55:19
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
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Radio curious revisits a conversation with Diane Eickhoff, who portrays early women's rights activist Clarina Nichols in this chautauquan style int...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:09
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When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
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When you think of "Halloween Music" what comes to mind? For most of us, it's Monster Mash and Thriller, or something darker like NIN and White Zo...

Bought by KMUD, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KPRG, WOUB, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 5
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Women might more readily fall in love with people of any gender... because of our fluid sexual nature and where love is in our brain.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:11
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A show about that small step, the stumble from being an artist to being homelessness and helplessness. Music and readings by those folks who lived...

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:43
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A gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:32
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This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:14
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A self-aware postmodern painting finally sees itself as it truly is in this original radio play, "Red on White."

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
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A look into why sports fans continue to cheer on their teams when, win or lose, it's going to stress them out. Really.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:24
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Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 20:08
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Radio Curious continues its series on near term human extinction in a conversation about applying hospice treatment towards the dying planet and hu...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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This contemporary poem gets into the mind of a wide receiver in the middle of a play.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
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I struggle with the "hurry up and wait" mentality. Alaska helped me get over this.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
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Do you know how we got Labor Day? Winston Smith's torture has begun, and Kim Davis' arrest is ordered by the Supreme Court

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:34:32
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Take a trip to view the far side of the Moon.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Pat Zakaib's bitter-sweet memory of friendship lost and found spans decades as she shares a frustrating tale of her travels from Paris to Athens.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:01
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Strange life forms at the bottom of Earth's oceans may provide clues about creatures which may exit on other worlds.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Seal of the State of Jefferson, Credit: wikipedia.com
"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:21:46