PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Caption: A chimp at the Lincoln Park Zoo uses a stick to fish for food., Credit: Michael De Bonis/WBEZ
Humans have an incredible ability to fashion tools that make our lives easier and advance the goals of science, but we're not the only species maki...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KVMR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 4
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us out to the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University to explo...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack explores the local economics of the arts. With the Downtown St. Cloud Art Cra...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
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A man questions the advice of his doctor and decides to stop taking anti-anxiety medication.

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:26
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Paula Hay Masters student of Social Anthropology Her SPACE - the train

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:30
Caption: John Mark Scott, Credit: W & J Directory
John Mark Scott and special guest Robert Dodge interview Joshua Stacker and Andrew Tabler both W & J Alums who have spent time in the Middle East

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 36:48
Caption: hough he died in 1961, author Dashiell Hammett's manuscripts are still being discovered.
What do the city of San Francisco, a long lost manuscript, and a Mediterranean bird of prey have in common? Well, they’re all part of the legend of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rising sea levels, Credit: marineinsight.com
The oceans are slowly rising due to ice melt and the warming of the waters. And at least one east coast city has hired a Dutch firm to evaluate op...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anthony Lamar (left), Julia McConahay (Center), and Mike Droho (right)
What happens when you get a songwriter with great guitar skills, a supreme violinist who knows how to play across multiple genres, and the coolest ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 50:59
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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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George encounters a spiritual seeker

  • Added: Aug 08, 2010
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Kim Kashkashian, Credit: courtesy of WGBH
How does one make a sound on an instrument? Violist Kim Kashkashian says it actually has little to do with the instrument itself. Ultimately, she...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :22
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Vito Acconci's work as an artist and architect often confuses the boundaries between public and private space. In 1964 Acconci saw a movie that wou...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:09
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Those who pursue a life in the spotlight have a lot of tough decisions to make about the things they choose to participate in. At the end of the da...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We often hear terms in the vernacular to describe a man when he is easily frustrated or angered. Seemingly insignificant things can easily explode ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
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How do we make the big decisions in our lives? Who to vote for?-or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war? Most of ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 58:01
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Why some couples get along and others don't, sometime to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question the answer to which is...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
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A sports icon of the first half of the 20th century, Jim Thorpe, was a Native American athlete who rose to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian ...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 26:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:23
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If you have been sexually abused as a child, or know someone who was, listen to this edition of Radio Curious with host Barry Vogel and Susan A. Cl...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:30
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Howard Zinn’s productive insights into history came to an end with his death in January 2010. This edition of Radio Curious shares a previously not...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:34
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with filmmaker Frank Stiefel, about his documentary “Ingelore,” which chronicles the life of his mother, Inge...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Tiffany stained glass window inside Blanford Church.
Memorial Day, a national holiday of remembrance, was first celebrated south of the Mason/Dixon line in Petersburg, Virginia at Blandford Church Cem...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KQAL, RadioFreePalmer, KUCB and more


  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 24