PRX - Pieces for Tone: Melancholic

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Just in time for a winter's night! These classical pieces come to you from the frozen north. Bundle up by the fire and enjoy symphonic works from...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:29:00
Caption: Colorful Roofs in Québec City
A Mosaic of songs by Francophone artists that will delight you even if you do not speak a word of French. When you'll listen to the songs you'll k...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Flooded Streets, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy experiences some nostalgia for the monsoons of his childhood.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brussels, Mont des Arts
The French language songs in this episode are full of emotion, ranging from the expression of attachment to one's city to the proclamation of the b...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nelson Mandela, Credit: omg.com
Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Bosnian musician Vedran Smailovic describes the incident on 27 May 1992, during the war in Bosnia, which inspired the act of commemoration and grie...

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Moulton the singing cab driver drops in with ... oh it's too goofy to write about but he had me laughing at his audacity. Also songs with d...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:03:04
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Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:48
Caption: Papo Colo, Credit: Courtesy Papo Colo and Exit Art
Cathy Byrd meets Puerto Rican-born artist Papo Colo, co-founder of Exit Art, to talk about the global significance of the NYC nonprofit contemporar...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 12:44
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I'll show courage, I'll channel my anger and let time go by, but it will take a lot more to cope with the loss of your beauty.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
Caption: Et Maxence, aka Carole Nortier
The singer/songwriter 'Et Maxence' found her audience through the internet. Her song "Early September", about a relationship full of doubts, is in ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:23
Caption: Youth dance troupe at the Circassian Benevolent Association in Wayne, NJ., Credit: Julia Barton
As far as he knows, Zack Barsik is the first Circassian born in the US. He grew up in Passaic County, New Jersey, where Barsik’s father emigrated f...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
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Band by distance… or banned by distance? A radio portrait for one of the two members of a band that is banned by distance, The Pencils!

  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
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Return to Yesteryear with "Kingwood Kowboy's Country Songs", classic and vintage country, cowboy and western songs written by the Kingwood Kowboy, ...

Bought by Raven Radio and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Mar 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Return to Yesteryear with "Kingwood Kowboy's Country Songs", classic and vintage country, cowboy and western songs written by the Kingwood Kowboy, ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Music effects behavior and taps into the soul of the listener. Music is a universal language, and transcends and communicates non verbally. As we l...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: Celtic Roots Radio - logo, Credit: Raymond McCullough
Hosted by Raymond McCullough, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Celtic 'n' roots music 'n' craic from Northern Ireland, with music from: Shantalla, (...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2009
  • Length: 29:47
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A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 2
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Exploring conflict in the modern world through the stories and experiences of the Irish Troubles

  • Added: Jul 09, 2006
  • Length: 10:52
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A meditation on a street musician in the heart of the Renaissance

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 19, 2003
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1