PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Caption: Jerry Lembcke
The end of the First Gulf War saw a vast increase in the number of combat soldiers filing claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the past ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Arts Advocate Al Head discusses the profound impact of traditional arts on communities. [28:50] 2012 Bess Lomax Hawes Award Recipient.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:47
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
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Host Ed Ayers talks with psychotherapist Edward Tick about the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

Bought by KVNF and Radio Newark


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
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History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:01
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:17
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Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir ab...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious discusses incarceration and solitary confinement from the prisoner's perspective with Steven Czifra, a 38 year old undergraduate stud...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
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Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
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Liza Long talks to her son about his experiences living with mental illness.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Naya Arbiter, vice president of the Amity Foundation, a nonprofit that provides drug treatment services, and Sarah Gordon, HIV counseling coordinat...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 20:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Remember the sixty second moral inquiry asks questions about what is the right thing to do. Today, we ask "How can you tell If a government is bec...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
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News and features on global conflict.

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
Caption: Rumbidzai Dube, Daria "DJ" Hudson, Ingrid Cruz, Leehee Rothschild, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
What does it mean to be an ally in a political movement? From white Americans in the civil rights era, to Israelis in Palestine, to Latino-American...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A program of poems by Carl Sandburg on the mortality of things, civilizations, and men. A Native American story, and the tale of the last buffalos

Bought by KMUN and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 2
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:22
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dave King
Dave King is a highly accomplished drummer primarily working in the Jazz genre, though he is also in the Minneapolis pop band Halloween Alaska, and...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. I this essay Sinykin presents a contemplat...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Cesar Chavez
Professor Matt Garcia has written the most comprehensive history ever of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the ...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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People tell a lot of ghost stories around Halloween. But for some, ghosts aren't the supernatural figures we read about in books or see in movies. ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:08
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Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller, writer, and poet. Following Paul Wellstone's death she wrote this poem to honor his legacy.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:03