PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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StoryCorps: Sekou Siby
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sekou Siby, a former kitchen worker at Windows on the World restaurant in the World...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Northern Community Radio - "Bicentennials and Beginnings."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
"November's Fury" recounts the deadliest storm in Great Lakes history
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Michael Schumacher, author of 12 books on Great Lakes shipwrecks and lighthouses, joined WTIP's Dick Swanson recently to discuss his latest, "Novem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:50
  • Purchases: 1
Princess Grace on JFK
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"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
The Beat: Robert Jevne - "Disappearing"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
A March for Jobs and Freedom
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 6: The Journey Continues
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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Veteran Matters continues with part 2 of this series. Host Peter Hilton introduces a new group of veterans, and we learn what roles animals may or ...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 2
Plessy vs. Fergusson
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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One of the early and most important Supreme Court decisions of the Civil Rights movement

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gwen Westerman on her new book, "Mni Sota Mkoce: The Land of the Dakota"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Gwen Westerman, co-author with Bruce White of "Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota." The book, from t...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
Woman's History: Susan B. Anthony March 13, 1906
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Our unappreciated national treasure, Susan B. Anthony spent more than five decades in a struggle to transform life for American women by securing t...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Minnesota Disasters Traveling Exhibit
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 23:30
  • Purchases: 1
Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks
From: N Lorde
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
Socorro UFO Encounter
From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys
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Socorro County Sheriff Lonnie Zamora finds himself in the Twilight Zone.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
Pearl Harbor Veteran Jim Peacock Remembers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Pearl Harbor veteran Jim Peacock., Credit: Greg Latza, greglatza.com
Jim Peacock is one of only a few dozen U.S. veterans who witnessed both the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and the war's end on deck the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 13
What You Don't Know About Thanksgiving
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Pilgrims, Credit: turtlemom4bacon
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?

Bought by WRFA-LP and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 46:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Mayor of Allston
From: Eleanor Kagan
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To the uninitiated, Mr. Butch was just another homeless man on the streets of Boston. To those living in Allston, however, he was their wayfaring p...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:34
U2's Bono on Playing Music for America Right After 9-11
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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This lost interview with Bono comes to us from a conversation recorded back in 2001, just weeks after 9-11. Bono was speaking with Anthony Bozza--t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
This WE Believe - Race
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Black History: Ossie Davis, February 4, 2005
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
He Loved Me Truly: Abraham Lincoln
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Chronicle
Caption: Abraham Lincoln, Credit: Matt Lemmon
Much has been written about the life, times and experiences of Abraham Lincoln, but perhaps the nicest part of the truth is the story of Lincoln an...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Jan 12, 2011
  • Length: 50:47
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry Slam Celebration of Miller Learning Resources Center
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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It’s been 10 years since the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students. Ar...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
When Former Enemies Sit Down and Talk About World War II
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Home Again
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Pearl Harbor, Credit: Rich Engelbrecht
A poignant tale of a returning veteran who witnessed December 7, 1941.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 47:48
Laika, November 3, 1957
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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A true, Russian space hero died today. As a matter of fact, the very first Russian space hero. And as it turns out, she was the first space martyr....

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Roger Arthur Peterson (Buddy Holly Pilot), February 3, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Buddy Holly pilot. Everybody knows how Roger Peterson died, but almost nobody knows who he was.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00

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