PRX - Pieces for Tone: Polished

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

31 results


Modern Notebook for February 4 - 10, 2024 (Ep. 231)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
Piece image
The Lunar New Year is coming up on February 10, and on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline we are celebrating with music about the moon and w...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 7
Seven Samurai
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
Piece image
There’s a sports metaphor I’ve heard used, in basketball mostly, when they say that a player is “in a zone.” Every shot seems to go in; whenever th...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:56
Can the War in Ukraine Push an Asian Economy Over the Edge?
From: Mateo Schimpf
Piece image
Ray Suarez talks with The Washington Post’s Gerry Shih and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a Sri Lankan geopolitical analyst, to understand why-and-how Sr...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
Piece image
We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
All About Lily Chou-Chou
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
Piece image
Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
An Elephant Sitting Still
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
Piece image
In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
For Us All
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
The true story of a long road to justice.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, KFCF FM, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 11
When Anti-Asian Hate Goes Viral
From: Mateo Schimpf
Piece image
In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize again...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
In The Tunnel
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
Piece image
When we face mental health struggles, who will help us find our way out? In this episode honoring Mental Health Awareness month, the women at She...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Platform
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
Piece image
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
Partition Museum
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Amar Kapoor's Diary, Credit: Partition Museum
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies. The partition ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trapped on the Wrong Side of History
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
A Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan in WWII

Bought by KGOU, KUER, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WCPN and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 6
For The Kim Loo Sisters, It Was About Jazz
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The Kim Loo Sisters
The Kim Loo Sisters was a jazz vocal band born in South Minneapolis in the twenties, thirties and forties. Today, the daughter of one of musicians ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Netaji Lives!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Credit: nataji.org
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Food Fight!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Piece image
In an India bristling with news about beef raids, vegetarian only housing societies and animal slaughter bans, being vegetarian has started soundin...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Speech to Bind Them All
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Shashi Tharoor
It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Amy Tan and “The Valley of Amazement”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Ramen Goes Gourmet
From: Emily Berman
Piece image
Restaurants Give Ramen the Gourmet Treatment

Bought by KLCC and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Clothing Designer, Yeohlee Teng
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Yeohlee Teng talks about her design philosophy and her work with Making Midtown, an initiative to reinvigorate creative production in NYC’s garment...

Bought by WNJR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
Uniqueness of Indian Music
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Elements of Indian music that make it unique.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
Genres and styles of Indian music
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
A look at various music styles across India

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 1
New Sounds of China Episode 4: The Chengdu Temperament
From: Peter Vautier
Series: New Sounds of China
Piece image
A curious mixture of punk rock, localized ska, DIY pop, and cannabis-infused folk from the city of Chengdu, gateway to China's wild west.

Bought by WLRH and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Historical Summit for Michigan's APA
From: Kristen Balagtas
Piece image
One of Michigan's ethnic minorities finds a voice

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 02:42
Endangered Chinese Music
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Chinese music that is disappearing

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
Musical Instruments of China
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
The sounds, instruments and structures of the traditional Chinese orchestra.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 09:20