PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring

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

194 results


Caption: Coke Salish, Credit: Sonny Assu
In our debut episode of the RPM podcast, we shine a light on Indigenous musicians from the Coast and Straight Salish territories where RPM is based.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 16:57
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Billy Taylor played with the best in the business. But his contributions to jazz went far beyond the bandstand.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:46
  • Purchases: 8
Piece image
Please enjoy our special Valentine's Day piece about Love and wine. The interviews with a marriage counselor and a winemaker intertwine as they bot...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
In the late 1990s, crack environmental consultant Don Gamble checked out of his comfortable east coast professional life...and disappeared. Ten yea...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 21:42
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
How do you reconcile being downright scared of people and crowds if you’re always on stage? Actor and Singer Cynthia Hopkins has an answer: "I am...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
87-year old Zelda Kaplan:"I am very interested in fashion. I like to look nice. I still love to dance. My friends are dead. ... So with whom should...

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Antonio Davis lost the use of his arms and legs when he was the victim of a shooting. Not willing to just give up, Antonio put a paintbrush in his ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2010
  • Length: 11:07
Piece image
Chicago drummer, Joel Styzens, thought his career as a musician was over when he was diagnosed with hyperacusis and tinnitus. In this profile, Joel...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 08:04
Piece image
Please join Arts & Cultural Reporter Jeff Carmack for a feature covering the rather unique and inspiring people and organizations which create a re...

  • Added: May 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
Caption: "Biloxi Stabbing," Produced by Jeremy Lerman & Jeff Forester
Biloxi, Mississippi, 3 a.m. The attackers advanced from the dark. The violence was sudden, intense. Forester's cheek, nose and two ribs were brok...

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 15:28
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
One night in May of 2007, a tornado wiped Greensburg, Kansas, off the map. The town's residents have decided to not only resurrect the town, but to...

Bought by KUER, WRKF, KACU, KTSW 89.9, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 29
Piece image
A toy designer talks about what it's like to design toys for children with special needs.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 16:40
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Piece image
This 55 min piece features excerpts from a Feb.24th tribute to folk singer Odetta at the Riverside Church in NYC. Performing artists include Pete S...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, WSLR, Marfa Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2009
  • Length: 55:21
  • Purchases: 6
Piece image
Watching A Charlie Brown Christmas has become a yearly tradition for generations of viewers. Explore the history of this program, consider why it ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KMXT, KRPS, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Why would a lonely father of two need somebody special?

  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: :26
Piece image
Columbus Day special on the rights of indigenous peoples

Bought by KVMR, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KHEN-LP, KHNS, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2008
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 8
Piece image
A special on technology and human rights, including social networking sites in the Middle East, a site that counts the murdered in a Brazilian sta...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2008
  • Length: 53:29
Piece image
The machine brings new life to those who use it

  • Added: Jul 08, 2008
  • Length: :46

  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 09:05
Piece image
A disinhibited love story.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KUT, KCRW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2008
  • Length: 21:13
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Apr 11, 2008
  • Length: :17
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Photographer John Burcham's tale of traversing the Alaska Range on foot with friends and the perils of loneliness

  • Added: Apr 07, 2008
  • Length: 22:05