PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Tonight’s Granite City Radio Theater was nearly derailed by numerous winter illnesses, but since we aren’t really “on the rails” anyhow, it all wo...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:03:23
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After the regular show, the radio muse still beckons. She whispers, "Tickle the aether to fill the darkness and silence. Don't rely on a format, ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:01
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What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:25
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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
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On Wednesday, December 15th, 2021, the weather outside the Pioneer Place on Fifth Theater was frightful, but the jolly inside was delightful as the...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:48
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There’s a reason it’s illegal to be drunk and in charge of a cow in Scotland, and the Season 10 (!!!) premier of the Granite City Radio Theater cle...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:03:07
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From the eerie darkness of the Pioneer Place on 5th Theater in a still mostly closed up downtown St. Cloud, it’s Season 9 of the Granite City Radio...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:54:57
Caption: My friend Thai opening the "drive up window" for me to spend some time with my mom.
A vacation give-away on the radio that you don't need to be the fifth caller or know the name of any of the songs or musicians. (In fact, you bett...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Doom & Gloom, Credit: Julia Meek
Woe is me! And that's what this week's Folktale is all about.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and KLCC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
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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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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 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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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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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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Characters in songs are one of the ways that strong writers make their music more than just sound. A good player uses their instrumental skills, wh...

Bought by KPVL and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week's Folktale of Memories finds us honing our recall and reminiscence skills in a most musical manner--hoping you'll remember to join us!

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
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Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
Caption: DANCE music you can LISTEN to.
In this episode I feature a guest mix by Frank Ramos, who for over 27 years has hosted a show called, "Maximum Insight" on BBOX Radio out of Brookl...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2014
  • Length: 02:57:03
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The human spirit is an evolution of ascension where we go from experience to wisdom; to strength; to authenticity, and to wholeness.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:43
  • Purchases: 1
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The danger of believing we are the center of the universe is so pronounced. It's at the heart of why we degrade the environment. It's at the hear...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 30:34
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Holding on is part of what it is to be truly alive and to be in every moment, whatever it is. Holding on is part of being alive. And then there's...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Why do we expect ourselves to know things that we don't yet know? If we would truly trust the timing of our own evolution, then we'd stop expecting...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 30:17
  • Purchases: 1
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The solution to the great problems of the world including racism, begin within; with accepting your own wholeness, accepting that you don't have to...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1