PRX - Pieces for Tone: Intriguing

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A winter's journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic, with familiar works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Debussy along with surprises by newer composers f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WCQS, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
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An immigrant adjusting to new life in a new country has many challenges including how the community accepts them. Immigrants may feel they are on t...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
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Antonio Campos talks religious prostitutes, music as plot point, and the choreography of life.

  • Added: May 04, 2013
  • Length: 21:18
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The Island of California appeared on maps for over a century.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photographer Andrew Kilgore
On this month's Tin Roof Project, it's acclaimed photographer Andrew Kilgore telling his own true story.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Elisa Korentayer is a writer, a performer, and a recording artist. Here she reads her poem "Ryokan In Small Mountian Village Outside Kyoto. The Be...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
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Peace Talks Radio rebroadcasts excerpts from the 2011 program produced by Amy Mayer. Produced in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace ...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: girl eating the Togolese staple food "pâte", Credit: Carla Seidl
Dessert? Some people have never even heard of it. This piece examines the cultural relativity of this sweet, after-meal food practice by contrastin...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
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Who were the mysterious Maya? Their predecessors were nomadic hunters. They followed game animals across the Bering Land Bridge, and populated the ...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
Caption: Train Station, Credit: Jake Warga
The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in Detroit in 1831 to the quote: “utmost limits of European civilization” and wrote ‘Democracy in Amer...

Bought by The Story, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 4
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BART closes just after midnight every night of the week, including on weekends when people like Pat Long stay out late. It’s been that way for 35 y...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:34
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New York has its Coney Island; Tulsa had its Bell’s Amusement Park. Founded in 1951, Bell’s rapidly became the city’s must-visit attraction--but to...

Bought by The Neighborhood


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Senator Specter is now a Democrat. Was his decision to switch parties principled, pragmatic, or just expedient?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30