PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring

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Caption: A young apprentice tries his hand at making a mandala.
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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When Anne, a young Canadian woman in the 1950’s, is told it’s not possible to study giraffe in the wilds of Africa because she’s a woman, she sets...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:24
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In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUHF, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WCBE and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 36
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A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.

Bought by WXDU and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jane York and Nura Adam embrace at a meeting, Credit: Lisa Merrill, Bellevue WA
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
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After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:11
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Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: Giancarlo Calicchia's "Genesis," a 28-foot long, 2,000+ pound wooden sculpture., Credit: Dan Moulthrop
Cleveland’s Renaissance man hopes to rejuvenate the Rust Belt with art.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 12:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Malcolm, a 16 year old in Myanmar, bravely defies traditional culture. Against everything he has been taught, Malcolm breaks away from his parents’...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
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He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by Prairie Public, KERA, WEZU, KOSU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 58
Caption: Captain John Campbell, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Captain John Campbell of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Corporal Sean R. Smith, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Corporal Sean R. Smith of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Corporal Michael Perry, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Corporal Michael Perry of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 09:53
Caption: David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill, Credit: Erik Swain
Former NY Times reporter David Rohde was abducted in Afghanistan only two months after marrying Cosmopolitan photo director Kristen Mulvihill. Seve...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 1
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A look back at the last Bob Marley & The Wailers concert (Pittsburgh - Sep 23, 1980) with previously unavailable live recordings and exclusive inte...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WFAE and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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The documentary about the lives of 3 Muslim religious leaders re-shaping their faith and their communities

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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The story of a remarkable Indian woman who struggled with the bonds of tradition and finally broke them in old age, told by her granddaughter.

Bought by WWNO, KFCF FM, KVNF, KVSC, WOMR and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 31:32
  • Purchases: 20
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Maria is a woman who took to her heart some of the hundreds of thousands of orphans in Russia.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 26:03
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Emerging Tibetan Buddhist teacher, the 17th Karmapa makes first historic visit to the US

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 17:01
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Less than a dollar a day is a phrase we are all familiar with, but what does it really mean? Almost half the world's population lives on less than ...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 22:24
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Less than a dollar a day is a phrase we are all familiar with, but what does it really mean? Almost half the world's population lives on less than ...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 22:30
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Less than a dollar a day is a phrase we are all familiar with, but what does it really mean? Almost half the world's population lives on less than ...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 22:45
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Less than a dollar a day is a phrase we are all familiar with, but what does it really mean? Almost half the world's population lives on less than ...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 22:35