PRX - Pieces for Tone: Disturbing

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

94 results


Caption: Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov joins us again. He is the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, The Five Stages of Collapse: Sur...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Classic piece resurrected from years back on war and the cost of killing. Unique piece, Money Matters award winning news filler. One of a kind piec...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:11
Piece image
Host Bob Kustra talks with Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick about his book, "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS"

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 30:06
Caption: Professor Nicholas Stargardt
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict. What the story doesn’t t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Two haunting sounds that are powerful, and have an unusual quality when heard together.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:06
Piece image
In this sound rich short story, an unmanned aerial vehicle pilot grapples with his conscience as he executes his mission …

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 13:05
Piece image
Only uncovered recently: a famous general commits a crime... but world events overshadow it. Author Nigel Hamilton reads from his book, The Mantle ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Dyed Today with Granddaughters, Credit: Mark Kelleher
A Children's Playground in the Post WWII Soviet Union

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
Piece image
Everyday, it seems war is in the news. Headlines report on wars from around the globe. But what happens when a war ends? Today, the group called...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books
This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anderson in Bucharest, Credit: Anton Foek
His most important dream is to have the best possible education for his son who is 9 years old now. And not to endure the horrors of a life as a ch...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 16:46
Caption: Lance Corporal Nicholas Rodriguez
Nicholas Rodriguez joined the Marines because he thought he could make a difference. His service changed Nick–and his family–forever. Nick’s mom &...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:51
Piece image
Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Genozid Mermorial, Credit: A. Peltner
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 20:15
Piece image
Dr. Timothy Lineberry, Mayo Clinic psychiatrist & suicide expert for the Army, spoke recently with WTIP's Bob Carter about the alarming increase in...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 17:07
Piece image
Radio Curious brings you an interview about torture from our archives in 2006. Our guest is Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, M...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Piece image
We bring you voices from Pakistan of families destroyed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists working to build a g...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: America's Army
Interactive, realistic, pro-war video games have become part of American culture. But protestors and artists are finding ways to turn the virtual ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Piece image
The third and final part of our series examines military sexual post truama and the role that sexual harrasment plays in miltary sex crime.

Bought by WEZU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
Today on Culture Clique, we learn about an event in our country's history that is not widely known or talked about. Winona State University Profes...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 47:08
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Child soldiers and foreign aid raise an important ethical dilemma: Should allies that use child soldiers receive U.S. military aid, even if it comp...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Willard Alternative High School student, Keifer Clark, interviews 93-year-old Bataan Death March survivor,  Ben Steele. , Credit: Julie Jorgenson
"Students and Soldiers" weaves together wartime stories from twelve Montana veterans of various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Interviewed by t...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Piece image
A veteran of 25 years witnesses a fellow soldier kill an eight year-old girl. Upon returning home, he develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and f...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:31
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Another little publicized war involving the indiscriminate killing and torture of people in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Sudan, in Northeast Afri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00