PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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A quick look into how one Division One college campus is still very much divided on how to solve the issue of compensating athletes.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
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A precocious teenager goes on a quest to understand sex by hooking up with nerds at school - and recording her findings in her diary ala The Kinsey...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 17:14
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More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:59:01
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The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Strawberry field in Watsonville, California , Credit: SGrace via Flickr
We follow Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez as she shows us the reality of farm workers' lives in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Lopez founded the Center fo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Beyonce
Teen radio journalist, Lilli Carlsen, traces how her journey to become a feminist directly corresponds to musical artist Beyonce’s lyrics. For many...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
Caption: John Dominic Crossan
At the heart of the Bible, says New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan, is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, we have an enigmatic scandal brewing in my state. Twenty-one ballots- all for a state Senate Republican candidate surfaced inside a sealed ba...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:22
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Chelsea Snow Cain is an American novelist and columnist.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 23:51
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This Women's Words features Esther Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading her poem "The Talk."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: Andrew Hiller
Pretty soon, you're going to start hearing warnings about the War on Christmas... Now, that battle may be hard to spot through the blinking red a...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Caption: Chris Tomlinson
After spending eleven years in Africa as bureau chief for The Associated Press, Chris Tomlinson returned home to Texas. Seeing oppression and apart...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kenna Fisher
On this episode of Strangers, Kenna, formerly known as Ken, came out 5 years ago. This is her story.

Bought by Public Radio for All, HowSound, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 3
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
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Devil's Advocate for Civil Debate

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: John Gallegos, left, is interviewed by Antonio Martinez, right, with assistance from Marquell Hicks, center., Credit: Laura Marcus Green
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:34
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1