PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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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
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Dena Kohleriter had always seen herself becoming a mother one day. So when she was 36 years old, she decided to have a child on her own.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Drew Lanham tells his friend John Lane about his lifelong passion for birds and nature.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
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We asked members of Tucson's black community to share insight on topics related to their blackness. A series of short segments designed for broadca...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:29
Caption: The eagle t-shirt made by Karen Krolak, Credit: Steve Nelson
Interdisciplinary artist Karen Krolak tells us about the t-shirt she hand-stitched for her father and why it's so important that she hold on to it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 29, 2019
  • Length: 15:38
  • Purchases: 1
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The Emotion Roadmap featured a show about veterans close to when we celebrated Veteran's Day in 2019. One caller talked about a veteran living in a...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:23
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Shonda Buchanan discusses her memoir, "Black Indian." She also reads a short passage from the book.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The nuance of language, of idiom. The difference between being looked at–stared at, glared at–and being seen. When we look with eyes of love, we se...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
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Canadian historian and author Edward Chamberlin discusses his book "The Baker and the Blackfoot: An Untold Story of Friendship, Trust, and Broken P...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Michael Berenbaum as he comes to the St. Cl...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Kisha Schlegel discusses her collection of essays, "Fear Icons." She also reads short passages from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:49
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Fred Provenza discusses his book, "Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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After years in an internment camp, a Japanese-American family struggles to adjust to their new lives.

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Here are a couple hours of 2018 releases revisited, not necessarily the best but rather continued reviews and tracks we did not get to in the actua...

Bought by KRZA, WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Scott Parker discusses his small book of essays, "A Way Home: Oregon Essays." He also reads a few short pieces.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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"You can't heal from something unless you really honor that it happened." This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of 1868, which relea...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:35
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Historian and author Brett Walker discusses his memoir, A Family History of Illness: Memory as Medicine. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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OJT, Organ Jazz Trio from KC, opens the a gateway for mucho B3 organ. From Concord Records release # 6, we have a seat on the lawn of the 1975 Conc...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WKAR and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Christopher Caskey is a scientist and entrepreneur with an innovative business idea to tackle two environmental problems in rural Colorado at once:...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Monika Vischer is program director at Colorado Public Radio Classical. She is also co-founder and board chair of El Sistema Colorado, a non-profit ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Melvin Pender (right) with his friend, Keith Sims, at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta last month.
During the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, many black athletes were called to protest racial inequality. Not all were able to do so. That was the case f...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Linda Kwong's (right) suicide attempt in 2012 took a toll on her relationship with her daughter, Emily. Linda and Emily talk for the first time about what happened that day in a conversation at StoryCorps in 2013., Credit: Anita Rao/StoryCorps
Linda Kwong and her daughter Emily talk for the first time about the day Linda attempted suicide and how it’s affected their relationship.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jodi Picoult with Neal Rubin
A conversation with bestselling author Jodi Picoult.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: On The AIr at Goddard College Community Radio, Plainfield, VT, Credit: Brian Aust
For my father, Herb Aust, who introduced me to jazz of the west coast cool flavor at a very impressionable age.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:56:30