PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Caption: Seth India Today Cover, Credit: India Today
He is one of the best known Indian writers writing in English these days. But Vikram Seth is a very private man. But Dec. 11, 2013 changed all that.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Drone attacks. Black sites where prisoners are tortured. Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, I...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Fast Food Workers Strike in Over 100 Cities

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: Tarun Tejpal, Credit: ndtv.com
The founder of Tehelka, an indian magazine known for investigative stories on violence against women is involved in it's own rape controversy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:07

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Breaking the chains of slavery, Credit: empirical_perception
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A "newsical" analysis and roundup of both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions... plus the spin war to come over the closely watche...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 56:02
Caption: Torch Blocked at Downtown East Side, Credit: AMANDA ZEIDERS / Pittsburgh Indymedia
The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on t...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bangledeshi woman and child, Credit: Flickr user: nomanson
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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A look at the latest strange detour in Campaign 2012...The War on Women...told thru narration, music and soundbites.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 56:15
Caption: Senator Carraro is an Average Joe
We need to change the qualifications for running for President as well as Congress. Obviously the candidates we've had in the past were not the cho...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:29
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com/radio
A review of regional issues with citizen guests

  • Added: Jan 15, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Three women politicians break down what it means to have a seat at the city council table with the old boys.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI explore the raging ethical dilemma and Constitutional questions around post-incarceration civil commitme...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Turning off the water pumps in the Central California Valley to protect the smelt is criminal and will destroy our nations agriculture.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Senator Joe Carraro discusses how the economy is being driven to ruin by people who keep screwing up and getting ahead.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro asks: If the Republicans are so sure of their ideas, why are they so afraid to debate them with President Obama and the Democrats?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro proposes that if Congress is really representative of the people, then its members will give up its overpaid salaries and benefits and ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the fall of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street firm he worked for as a stockbroker. He compares the greed and ineptitude of Thain...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:16