PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
Caption: Trisco Pearson of Force M.D.'s, Credit: Shefik
Acceptance - Force M.D.'s is a vocal group formed in 1981. Trisco Pearson later joined the group. They released a collection of R&B hits throughout...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:29
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Geography - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:28
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In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize again...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Rain - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that, he ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:35
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The first will be last.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
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After Ida B. Wells published a column on May 21, 1892, denouncing “the old threadbare lie,” that lynching was used to “protect white womanhood,” a ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
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Millennials and younger people now make up America’s largest group of eligible voters, surpassing Baby Boomers for the first time.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
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The French director Agnès Varda has been making films for over sixty years, in both fiction and non-fiction form, and she has truly become one of t...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
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The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:31
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Watching a Guatemalan film is not an everyday event here in the States, much less one whose dialogue is primarily in Kaqchikel, a Maya Indian langu...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: James Hoggan
James Hoggan, author of I’m Right and You’re An Idiot : The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up, Chair of the David Suzuki Found...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman of The BradBlog and The Bradcast radio show joins us again to help make sense of these primary elections and electoral politics in th...

  • Added: May 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:45
Caption: Odegaard Writing and Research Center, Credit: OWRC
Riding on the heels of the recent release of Captain America: Civil War, the Character Development team gathers three OWRC tutors—our creative dire...

  • Added: May 15, 2016
  • Length: 19:45
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How well does any nonfiction writer capture "The Truth?" Essayist Edward McPherson explores truth and memory in nonfiction.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:17
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One of the best mission statements I’ve read is the original NPR mission, which was written in 1969 by Bill Siemering. Bill is an amazing guy who, ...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
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In which I finally give my opinion.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:58
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In which I interview a fourth person, one who argues against video game causing violence in children.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 16:24
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In which a person who believes video games do not cause violence in children is interviewed.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 16:22
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In which I interview someone who believes video games can cause violence in children.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 23:07
  • Purchases: 1