PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 08:35
What story will we tell when we look back on this pandemic year?
On the one-year anniversary of the pandemic (and Shelter in Place, a pandemic-bor...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 2
Farming presents unique challenges for women. As wives of farmers, they often balance full-time jobs off the farm while raising a family. Living i...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 05:29
What we do for our children today will have a major impact on the future of democracy.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On a sunny morning during her junior year of high school, Noel Gasca was taking the SAT, when she got to a question that left her stumped. It basic...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
RadioActive producer Kamna Shastri tries to understand where she fits into conversations about race and identity as an Indian-American with albinism.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:52
Elinor Jones Toutant was homeschooled for most of her education, even though her family isn't one you'd expect to make that choice.
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 05:03
Guilt can haunt any parent whose child commits suicide. That’s especially true for a murder-suicide.
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Two generations of law enforcement recount the rewards and hardships of living in uniform.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 14:11
We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 26:19
In a park in Ellensburg, a tree grows beside a small stream. Daniel Curtis DeHollander’s ashes lie beneath the roots.
DeHollander committed suicid...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 1
RadioActive's Paul Kiefer and Lola Garcia collect the voices of people affected by gentrification in Seattle to paint a picture of our changing city.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 13:23
- Purchases: 1
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
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 08:19
How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...
Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
This is a radio documentary - my first radio project - that I produced in 2011. It tells the story of my grandmother in Ireland, who fostered over ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:30
Everyone loves a good happy hour - a chance to socialize and sip spirits. But what about happy hour in an assisted living facility?
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 2
From the outside, Jacorey looks like the party guy - he's 16, has his own apartment and seems to be living large. But Jacorey's private desire for ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 06:58
Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
This week on Tales from the South, stories about lessons: some learned from a parent, some from a stranger, and some from a child. Stories by Murra...
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 3
Mattie River looked like a puppy when we first found her. She was small and frightened, could barely stand on her own paws. Her wants seemed so ins...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 25:56
