PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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Blu emerges in the City a second time, met by a monolithic entity, bringing fears back to life. Mechanical birds fly through the square, beckoning...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 14:08
If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:44
A redneck decides to marry his gun.
- Added: Aug 08, 2012
- Length: 02:21
A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.
Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A sister reminds her accusing brother who held the household together when the mother was abusive and alcoholic in their growing-up years. The sco...
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:38
An elderly man prepares to take his senile wife to the nursing home, trying inarticulately to express his love.
Bought by WYSO
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
A woman questions her 15 year old daughter about going out with an older man and being busted. "The grass was Chuck's."
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A man is furious at his siblings making a public show of love for their deceased mother: they never showed their love while she was alive.
- Added: Jun 14, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two men talk of a couple whose bizarre lifestyle has nevertheless supported a love and commitment stronger than what the men have experienced in th...
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A married man tells a woman with whom he's having an affair of the time in his childhood: when he felt unconditional love.
Bought by WQJC
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
Sister and brother clean up the aftermath of a bloody parental fight, wondering if this is just what moms and dads do. As adults they wonder if it...
Bought by WQJC
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A mother berates that her teenage daughter to learn from the mistakes the mother made as a teen. Problem is, Mom won't say what mistakes.
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A man and a woman communicate through the medium of a board game, briefly wondering, "Is there more to life than this?"
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A child wonders why his grandfather has been made to live alone in a converted chicken house. Dad: It's not a chicken house!
Bought by WQJC
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
On the verge of love-making, a couple quarrel about taking out the garbage. The only solution: divorce.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A cleaning lady tells her baffled employer that she has disowned her own son for going against the tenets of their church.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A young working-class couple proclaim their firm commitment to their marriage, and, in the next breath, separate.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother visits her comatose son to celebrate his birthday, while her daughter is deeply frustrated with her mother's "denial."
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother explains that they had to move because they're out of work. The child understands only that his friend's house is nicer.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A suburban couple plan to go out for the evening, but every option is fraught with danger -- they stay home behind locked doors.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two parents, disciplining a teenage daugher, present a unified front -- of utter confusion.
Bought by WQJC
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
