PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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

53 results


Borders: What are they good for?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2024 Anniversaries #1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
This is our yearly start to the new year. We go back 10 years again and again as far back as we can go and tell you the music anniversaries that w...

Bought by KTRL, KHNS, KWIT, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KECG and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
LSD
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
This week in 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann invented LSD. It became a force in the 60s and gave us a new genre of music. Psychedelic.

Bought by KHNS, KWIT, KSRQ, KTRL, and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
PE 2335
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
Piece image
So It's Only Luring You...

Bought by WPVM 103.7, KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM, KEOS and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 21
Anita Cameron & Keith Jones on The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Disability justice activists Anita Cameron & Keith Jones join Laura Flanders to discuss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What are the suc...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, RadioStPete Florida, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Destroyer of Worlds
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
Piece image
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
773: As Read By The Author / 774: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 3/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Piece image
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
God's Little Acre: Revealing underrepresented stories of America's African heritage, Part 2
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
Piece image
Join World Footprints as we uncover the hidden stories of this important piece of Newport's and America’s past from God's Little Acre.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 39:27
EE 23-04: Max Haiven explains palm oil, 1/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
Piece image
What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Songs In Courts
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
Piece image
Can a song make a person do something awful? Many believe it can. In fact, there have been multiple court cases where a song was brought into evi...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
EE 22-29: Keitlyn Alcantara on Indigenous foodways of the past and the present, 7/15/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
Piece image
Anthropological bio-archeologist Keitlyn Alcantara studies pre colonial burial sites to understand indigenous foodways.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pam Jenoff, author of "The Lost Girls of Paris"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Piece image
Bob Kustra interviews Pam Jenoff about her latest novel "The Lost Girls of Paris"

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:46
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Halcyon Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Piece image
This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
Brendan Koerner, author of "The Skies Belong To Us"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
Piece image
Bob Kustra Interviews Brendan Koerner about his book "The Skies Belong To Us"

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
9/11 Unmasked, Part 2: A Conversation with Dwain Deets about Able Danger
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dwain Deets, Former NASA Engineer
Former NASA engineer explains evidence that an intelligence operation, Able Danger, knew Mohammad Atta was in the US yet was forbidden to share thi...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World: A Conversation with John Andrew Morrow
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. John Andrew Morrow
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Surprise! The New Russian President Is the Same as the Old Russian President
From: Jason Fields
Caption: War College Logo, Credit: War College
Mark Galeotti joins us for War College’s Russian election special. The winner, Vladimir Putin, was never in doubt, but what’s the sham election all...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 33:56
The Write Question - Ken Egan - 311
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
This program features a thoughtful conversation with Ken Egan about his historical nonfiction, Montana 1889, including the competing visions for, a...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Why Good People Become Silent (Or Worse) About 9/11
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Frances Shure
Psychotherapist, Frances Shure, explains the difficulty of accepting truths that shake our world-view.

Bought by 'The Sea', KPIP-LP, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Assassin of Youth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book jacket cover
In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics appointed Harry J. Anslinger as the commissioner. He became the first drug czar with a flair for demonizin...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
PE 1717
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
Piece image
Long sets and short breathers, second chances, and a bit of San Francisco

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
Start a Neo-Modernist Movement #529
From: Teosson Wells
Piece image
Rediscover a Creative and Artistic Modern Age

  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 10:24