PRX - Pieces for Tone: Emotional
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Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Tr...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 02:57
For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this piece we hear four people from around the world talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother in Bos...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
Carmencristina Moreno and her sister, Rosemary Selzer, remember their father, songwriter Luis M. Moreno, and the bittersweet legacy he left behind.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 47:57
For nearly a decade, Adele Levine and Etaine Raphael worked side by side to ensure soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan would be able to na...
Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WVBI-LP
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 3
On July 20, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. One of the victims was Alex Sullivan. He was ce...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A story told in two parts: Kayla Wilson came to StoryCorps in 2006 to talk about her mom’s drug addition and incarceration. Ten years later, she re...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 02:57
...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
A sample of our daily series, not usually this downbeat, BTW: Sister of actress Glenn Close, Jessie Close reads a "sad chapter" from her memoir, Re...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 2
Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
Father Michael Duffy remembers his friend, Father Mychal Judge, the first official victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :44
- Added: Jun 16, 2008
- Length: 01:06