PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Water Bladders for Free Heating, Cooling?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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A brilliant young professor invents a way to heat and cool homes -- for free. The president gives him a prestigious award, and he waits for the en...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
FearTV
From: WAMU
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This piece examines possible fear-mongering by the media.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Surviving on the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 5

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:53
The Link: Education & Incarceration
From: WAMU
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An examination of the direct relationship between schools and prisons.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Shortcut through the Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Up a Creek
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
The Struggle
From: Anton Foek
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A story of a neglected and forgotten war in Africa

Bought by WMFO


  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: 16:33
  • Purchases: 1
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women
From: Anton Foek
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The forgotten story of Jenny, an abused native woman in South Dakota

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 06:49
Sex Toy Safety
From: The Environment Report
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Some sex toy retailers are concerned about chemicals used to make the toys.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Spychips: RFID tags as human-tracking devices
From: Kellia Ramares
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Interview with Liz McIntyre

  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 15:00
Suspicion at the Dog Park
From: Neille Ilel
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What happens when someone's violent past becomes public knowledge?

  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:49
CL 2006 Peter Peterson "the quad deficits:why they matter and what to do about them."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Financial expert Pete Peterson talks about the looming crisis of baby boomer retirement and social security

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Driving out the Filth in Zimbabwe
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A year and a half ago, the Zimbabwean government destroyed the livelihoods of 2.5 million Zimbabweans and made 700,000 people homeless. Nothing has...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 08, 2007
  • Length: 31:00
  • Purchases: 2
No Freedom of Speech at Constitution Day Parade
From: KVMR
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Group Censored at "Freedom of Speech" Parade

  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:02
Reporting from the Red Light
From: Seattle Globalist
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A reporter's personal and ethical journey through Kolkata's red light districts.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:44
I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
We continue to struggle: An interview with Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein
From: Christopher Brown
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Prof. Finkelstein talks about the current situation in the occupied territories.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2006
  • Length: 17:58
RN Documentary: Running with Atalanta
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Women who are victims of trafficking and forced to work in the sex trade in The Netherlands often find themselves perceived as criminals by a gover...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 20, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Part One: HIV PREVENTION IS LOSING GROUND
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Voices of HIV
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a look at how efforts to prevent the spread of HIV are failing

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Immigration: Human Trafficking
From: KALW
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Feature on Human Trafficking and the International Sex Trade

  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
"The Thing About Being A Teenage Mother...Is That I'm Young"
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Two teen moms talk honestly with high school interviewers about what happened when they found out they were pregnant, how they told their boyfriend...

Bought by YouthCast, WXLV-FM, KVNF, KOOP, WFUV and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2005
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 6
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
From: Voices of Our World
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Kathy Golden talks in studio with Sister Helen Prejean, the author of Dead Man Walking and The Death Of Innocence plus a discussion with internati...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
Convicting Chevie Kehoe
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2
1986 William S. Burroughs - Dr. Benway
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Burroughs reads the provocative Dr. Benway bit

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Halliburton "Global"
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Halliburton and the Manchurian Candidate

  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 04:25