PRX - Pieces for Tone: Personal

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Caption: Chinese journalist Zhu Rui, seated before a Tibetan flag in Dharamsala, India, Credit: Lhakpa Kyizom
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:45
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In death is the possibility of harvest - making life from the fruits of the passing season.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:25
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Celebrating the birthday of my 70 year old friend Louise, who is in full bloom.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: From jungmoon's Flickr
Justine Teba of Pojoaque Valley High School was a participant in Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensive. In this reflective piece, Justine sh...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: My glasses, Credit: Jake Warga
A personal story of being violently mugged

Bought by KUT, HCC Radio The Dragon, KCRW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
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When Nadine Warner and her life partner, Laurie, adopted a child it never occurred to them that they may one day find the Catholic school system to...

Bought by WBEZ, Vocalo.org, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 3
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On my 21st birthday my father said to me: "Happy birthday, you're not covered on my insurance anymore ... so do me a favor, don't wear a seatbelt. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and KUOW


  • Added: May 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 3
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David Stratton knew his wife was close to her family, but he never dreamed that it would one day lead her to infidelity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2010
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Spring winds scour the land and dance in my soul.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 05:46
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The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: There's too many books!, Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, chrisrobinsonphotography
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?

  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 06:30
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This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
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October is breast cancer awareness month.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Each month brings its own special feeling. October is a month of apple-crisp days, cool nights and the sense that time is moving on.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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"I wanted to tell him that this was only beginning. That for the rest of his life that little girl, who no matter how old she was would always be h...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:38

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
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How the passage of time touches every life

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
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Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Mary Van Pelt, Credit: Miles Eddy
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
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This audio essay is based upon a near accident during a winter weekend drive from Boston to New York City.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:47