PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring
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It’s Thursday night and Nina G is about to get on stage for a comedy set.
“I'm a little too overwhelmed to be anxious,” she tells me before taking...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 2
We take you to the Quick Quilting Capital of the World to see how one family’s YouTube videos are not just building a business—they’re rebuilding a...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 2
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
U.C. Berkeley is known for its world-class scientists, in disciplines like physics, chemistry or biology. But just a few blocks away from campus, y...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 08:48
- Purchases: 1
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
In this part of Oakland, deep potholes and trash mark the street. But then, there’s this perfectly manicured shrine. It’s an elaborate structure, d...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 10:11
Emily Barreca has this report on the challenges and opportunities of Suquamish youth.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:59
Ellen Frankel slips the last of her quarters into the Medieval Madness pinball machine and wipes the sweat off her forehead. It’s her second game o...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 4
Every two years, San Francisco’s Soundwave Festival asks artists and musicians to focus their talents -- and their ears -- on one sonic idea. This ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:18
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:49
Sunset Youth Services is an organization that supports transitional age youth and their families with things like parenting classes, food assistanc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Rob Reiner talks redefining conservative, continuing education, and looking someone in the eye.
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 11:41
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
It’s audition day for Beyond Idol. Contestants pace around a large waiting area at Laney College, practicing softly to themselves as they wait for ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 08:36
Lisa Fruchtman talks simple pleasures, honoring the past, and warming up to cold.
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 21:51
Lupita Nyong’o talks honoring the characters, giving voice to the voiceless, and meeting Solomon Northup’s descendants.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Dec 01, 2013
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
On a wide street full of work spaces, lined with cars and no trees in sight is the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center. It’s the one building on the ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:30
Like many people who see a pretty rose in bloom, Annette Smith likes to take in the sight and scent of it. But when she bends her head to inhale th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 08:09
- Purchases: 1
Deafening gunshots rang out just as James Martin arrived home. Troubled by the news of a 17-year-old young man dying in front of his house, he did ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:38
Libraries are where many people go to exercise their brains, and now there’s at least one where you can exercise your body. The 81st Avenue Branch ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 04:49
These days, more and more researchers link our health to our daily surroundings. Take for example, neighborhoods that sit next to freeways exposed ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:02
Micah Tron is a rapper born and raised in San Francisco. She’s a queer woman of color, but the hurdles she has faced go even beyond her race, sexua...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Nancy Kelly talks cause, effect, and how saving the Marin Headlands paved the way for Alice Waters.
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 24:05
On a Sunday in April, cheery faces populate the groundbreaking of a new church construction project in South Minneapolis. Almost a year earlier, th...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 05:08
Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
