PRX - Pieces for Tone: Offbeat

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Laura Kasischke explores topics from motherhood to beauty queens in her 2017 boo...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Buzludzha as it appears today.
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 09:59
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Balance, Credit: Julia Meek
Here's hoping you'll spend an hour with us this week on Folktales for a musical listen to just what hangs in the balance!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, 'The Sea', 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of The 4 Elements, Credit: Julia Meek
Earth, water, fire & air--these are the "spiritual essences" this week's Folktale tracks, in the finest of musical tradition!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , WFIU and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Caution, Credit: Julia Meek
Beware! we foresee obstacles, danger and pitfalls around every bend--so do consider musical prevention, with a listen to the Folktale of Caution

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Rufus Porter was a nineteenth-century American artist, journalist, and brilliant inventor, who almost made it into the history books, but not quite.

Bought by Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
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How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:39
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The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS, won federal approval in March to conduct “whole plant” research on marijuana wi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 11:03
Caption: Rodney and Theresa Elmer, Credit: Josh Larkin Photography
Rodney and Theresa Elmer are a taxidermy power duo in Northfield, Vermont. In this interview, they talk about the art and psychology of mounting an...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 22:53
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I recently saw a billboard off a major highway in northern California that read: “Don’t Believe in God? You are not alone.” The sign was sponso...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:20
From: BSR Radio
Series: Off the Beat
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Off the Beat explores the concept of home! Where do you call home? What makes a home a home? Can you have more than one home? Who are you when you’...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
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Natasha Wimmer was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2007 to translate Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666. In this interview, she discusses the...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 1