PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Marjory is a keynote speaker, author, playwright, student, and advocate for children in the foster care system. Her success in these areas stems la...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
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We follow a mother's love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mother...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 47:06
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
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Composer Ingrid Stölzel talks about annoying church bells, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the importance of mentorship.

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 23:54
Caption: Lisa Gray, Credit: Kari Barnaal Yearous
On this episode of, Art Beat, we visit with a local author, who received a South East Minnesota Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. She is now taki...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 32:15
Caption: WBOI's Folktales, Credit: Julia Meek
A mother's work is never done--and this week's Folktale celebrates the love, spirit and dedication of mothers, daughters & grandmothers around the ...

Bought by WFIU, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 15
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Our ideas of manhood and womanhood determine the ways in which we raise and socialize our children, but how much does gender in a particular societ...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 34:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mr. Kitty
Sunny has lived off-grid in rural Lake County for the past 18 years and is a regular commentator on WTIP. In this edition, we'll find out what's be...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 07:08
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, local performer Candice Coleman looks back to her American Idol days remembering how the experience gave her ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
Caption: Pauline Oliveros at home, Credit: Karen Michel
Electronic music pioneer and founder of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros, born: May 30, 1932, Houston, TX, died: November 24, 2016, Kingston, NY re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
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This week is our first installment of a series covering the impact of prison on families. This episode focuses on Wendi Middleton, who works in the...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
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All we are is stories: Jeanette Bushnell, lecturer at the University of Washington, and Alice Tsoodle, education manager at Friends of North Creek ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Peter de Marneffe, Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He writes about liberty and libera...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 55:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kathryn Smith
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Women might more readily fall in love with people of any gender... because of our fluid sexual nature and where love is in our brain.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:11
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August in Minnesota means a lot of things, mosquitos, jokes about the humidity, and swimming in the normally frozen lakes and rivers. It also mean...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
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A short, flash fiction story about a young boy riding in a car with his grandmother. He is in awe of her awe.

  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
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Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Ann Brooks
Ann Brooks, Prof. of Education at Texas State University, speaks about her Fulbright experiences in Cambodia.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 13:09
Caption: Monica Sanchez
A mythological autobiography that is a contemporary odyssey through latitudes of heart and mind.

Bought by KUNM, KUPR low power FM, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 03, 2016
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 3
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High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1