PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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Ghost towns are an icon of the American West. But they’re not just part of a sepia-toned past; ghost towns in the making today as rural communities...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 57:41
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
Longtime friends Josh Belser and Sam Dow, who are healthcare workers in different states, have a conversation to check in with each other during th...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 1
Shig Yabu tells his grandson Evan about an unlikely friend he made as a Japanese American internee during World War II.
- Added: Feb 25, 2020
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 2
Topic 1: Museums are returning artifacts to their countries of origin, but maybe they shouldn't. Topic 2: California apologizes for helping with th...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 48:24
Topic 1: A chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety. Topic 2: The neuroscientist who lost her mind.
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 49:05
Notre Dame history professor discusses the secular effects of the Reformation.
- Added: Dec 27, 2018
- Length: 53:59
50 years after serving together in Vietnam, Army veterans Kay Lee and John Nordeen sat down for StoryCorps to remember how they first met.
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 2
Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 04:15
Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Tucked behind a fence row of tall weeds along the Little Miami Scenic Bike Trail, halfway between Xenia and Yellow Springs, sits a group of abandon...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 05:26
A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 14:46
- Purchases: 2
With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 47:05
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are preparing to celebrate that first feast shared between Native Americans and European Pilgri...
Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 5
This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...
Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 5
Examining the heavy New York influence on the Syracuse University lacrosse program, and the deep roots of lacrosse in the state of New York.
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 04:15
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
Bemidji’s grassroots Truth and Reconciliation group has been meeting for months to talk about race. Anton Treuer is one of the founding members of ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 04:24
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
Science and medicine was a main passion for Earl Bakken, inventor of the portable pacemaker. As a co-founder of Medtronic he began collecting early...
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:57
"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President! However did you kno...
Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, WSLR, PRX Remix, and KZYX
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 5
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Earlier this year, Kateri Tekakwitha became the first Native American saint. The 356-year-old saint helps American Indians cope with the Catholic C...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
