PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Mont Carmel, PEI , Credit: Charles McGuigan
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province of red sands and black mussels. Cradle on the Waves is what the aboriginal people--the MigMaw--called i...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 26:31
Caption: Ann Rabson, Credit: Courtesy Alligator Records
Remembering Ann Rabson - highly regarded boogie-woogie pianist, songwriter, and founding member of Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
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Gaetane Abrial unabashedly declares her love, passion and desires in the song "Unknown Flavors" co-written with André Manoukian.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Emotion Roadmap Leading You to Yale
Recently a colleague of mine, Dr. Marc Brackett, has been named as the leader of the new Center of Emotional Intelligence which will begin operatio...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 55:09
Caption: Brendan Angus McGuigan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
this week’s episode contains two parts. The first act is called Weather or Not. Act Two is titled Life Among The Immortals. They’re about my two s...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:11
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New one-hour special details the story of the West Memphis Three case – the accused, the victims, the legal battles and the advocates. Will include...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPVL, KFOK-LPFM, KSRQ, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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We'll listen to "My Freedom" (Ma Liberté) one of the great songs of the French repertoire about two kinds of love. The Love of our freedom, that a...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
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Bobby talks with Adam Rutkowski, a shit-talking Polish Long Islander who lost his house to Hurricane Sandy, and Tony (no last name provided), a hom...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:35:45
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Ringing the Salvation Army bell is boring, cold work during the busy Christmas holiday season. Margaret Agard, author and bell ringing volunteer, ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KTXK, KZMU Moab Community Radio, 'The Sea', and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 5
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"I love you", three short words, full of sweetness, but there are undercurrents and a darker side, as Jean-Jacques Goldman tells us in his song "Kn...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
Caption: Inspired leadership begins with mutual respect
This election felt divisive and strident and the feelings today are those of the victors and the losers, joyous and excitement for those that won, ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 49:10
Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Seth Bloom, Rehearsing, Credit: acrobuffos.tumblr.com
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:37
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We have crossed swords, we have suffered sleepless nights. Do we dare reach out to each other with open arms?

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:02
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How does a teenage boy handle loss? David must face his father's impending death from lung cancer while also maintaining his studies and athletics.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 2
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Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also inc...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chris Tucker
Writer Chris Tucker describes how sending a child off to college feels like receiving a "pink slip" as a parent.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
Caption: Mathilde is back! What now?
Following a traumatic breakup, Mathilde is back in town, leaving her ex-partner in a state of panic.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:08
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We introduce 6 Francophone artists in English and listen to one of their songs. You'll hear recent songs and older ones. They are equally addictive!

Bought by KUT and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 26:31
  • Purchases: 2
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On August 28, 2011 Tropical Storm Irene struck Vermont, bringing with it the worst flooding seen in the state since the early 20th century. "Weath...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 38:32
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A poem by Jacques Prévert, "As Simple as 'Good Morning'" has become a song that celebrates a serene and contented love. Vanina Michel interprets...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
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A man promises pearls, diamonds and riches to a woman. She responds: I have no need for these treasures. Bars on the window are bars even if they ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1