PRX - Pieces for Tone: Disturbing

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 11:03
Caption: Fear of the Dark cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
“The Good Cop.” MAGA hat wearing, right-wing immigrant Primo is tormented by his racist fears, and haunted by his hate when he’s as caught in a pro...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
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Hacksaw Tom welcomes back guest John Mueller, pianist and music collector. The topic this episode is fusion jazz, with recorded examples from Tom M...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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My name is Aline Guadalupe Aguilar. This is my first audio fiction piece. It’s about the struggle a person has when it comes to their inner demons.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Bloodshed on the desert highway.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A dark World War Two tale, plus an original docudrama about its author

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, WOUB, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 12
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Lock and load! So much music, like literature, is about conflict and resolution. This week we take a wind band tour of the extremes of war and pea...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Dr. William Lynn Weaver
In 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver was one of 14 black teens who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. At StoryCorps, he spoke about h...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
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Following his bizarre letter to Don, Jay is visited by a social worker. Jackie prevents Fi spending Christmas with Jay. Christmas Day arrives and ...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 17:00
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Jay’s life is a mess. He is listening to his neighbor (Don) through the wall. Can he really hear Don talking about him or is Jay paranoid?

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 07:49
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Jay is convinced neighbor Don is listening to his every move. His one solace is Fi - his chirpy 6 year old daughter.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 06:42
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Jay finally loses his best pal Owen when he misses the funeral of Owen's wife Bev. Jay's dream of his ex, Jackie, turns into a nightmare.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 08:50
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Jay now hears the voices continuously. He crashes around, shouting at them, a prisoner in his own home. A social worker calls.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 12:54
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Jay's world is falling apart. He gets harsh warnings that his welfare payments are at risk at the unemployment benefits office. Jay's pal Owen sp...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 10:44
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Jay is starting to crack up. He sets up a drugs deal. He tries to record the "voices" that he's hearing.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 09:37
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Jay's ex Jackie confides in their daughter Fi. Terry, Jay's brother, suggests Jay should write a letter to Don to "resolve any misunderstanding". ...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 11:59
Caption: Christ Child and Hans Trapp in Alsace (1863 illustration), Credit: Public Domain
Santa Claus knows when you've been bad or good ... so what happens when you've been very naughty? According to French legend, the black knight Hans...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
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For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this amazing true story caught-on-tape, two college-aged guys in Fairbanks, Alaska discover a hidden, man made, underground cave and decide to e...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious discusses human extinction with Dr. Guy McPherson, co-author of “Extinction Dialogs:  How to Live With Death in Mind” and Professor ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Jonah Kruvant reads a compelling highlight from his forthcoming futuristic novel, The Last Book Ever Written.... Are we heading into a socie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:45
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The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:51