PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Virtuoso Voices - Simone Dinnerstein (Not What I Expected)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Simone Dinnerstein
When Beethoven wrote his last piano sonata, we can say with near certainty he was completely deaf. The Sonata is filled with surprises. Pianist S...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2009
  • Length: :24
Virtuoso Voices - Jose Serebrier (Conducting without Speaking)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: José Serebrier
Conductor Arturo Toscanini was known as the poster child for bad behavior on the podium. Fortunately, the days of the yelling, screaming, raging t...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :25
The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees ...
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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How air pollution is affecting the fragrane from flowers, making it harder for bees to find and pollinate them.

Bought by KENW, WRVO Public Media, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2008
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 3
The Bible and a Gallon of Bleach
From: Jen Nathan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Religion and politics are two topics your mother told you never to talk about in public - unless you're a customer at Father Peter's laundromat in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
McKinley vs. The High One
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Why has an Ohio Congressmen spent 30+ years obsessing over the name of a mountain... in Alaska?

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs and WYSO


  • Added: Jun 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
Conversation with Norman Mailer
From: Julie Subrin
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With a new novel out, Norman Mailer proffers his views on Hitler, the Devil, E. M. Forster, and how Texas Hold'Em has taught him to be more than a ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2007
  • Length: 16:05
Hospice Chronicles
From: Long Haul Productions
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Long Haul Productions follows two hospice volunteers as they visit their first patients.

Bought by Raven Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, KERA, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Nuclear Plowshares
From: Gabriel Spitzer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What if the government wanted to blow up thermonuclear bombs near your house -- and forgot to tell you about it.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPFA, and KSUT


  • Added: Jun 25, 2006
  • Length: 14:33
  • Purchases: 4
march 7 2005
From: Gordon McDougall
Series: Poem for Today
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4-minute poetry program

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Warren Upstairs
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
The Arrangements
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sister reminds her accusing brother who held the household together when the mother was abusive and alcoholic in their growing-up years. The sco...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Armsted
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An elderly man prepares to take his senile wife to the nursing home, trying inarticulately to express his love.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Joellen & Willie
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman questions her 15 year old daughter about going out with an older man and being busted. "The grass was Chuck's."

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Funeral Notice
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man is furious at his siblings making a public show of love for their deceased mother: they never showed their love while she was alive.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Sacramento
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two men talk of a couple whose bizarre lifestyle has nevertheless supported a love and commitment stronger than what the men have experienced in th...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Duck-walking Marshmallow
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A married man tells a woman with whom he's having an affair of the time in his childhood: when he felt unconditional love.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Blood in the Kitchen
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sister and brother clean up the aftermath of a bloody parental fight, wondering if this is just what moms and dads do. As adults they wonder if it...

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Learn from My Mistakes
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother berates that her teenage daughter to learn from the mistakes the mother made as a teen. Problem is, Mom won't say what mistakes.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Trivial Pursuit
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man and a woman communicate through the medium of a board game, briefly wondering, "Is there more to life than this?"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Chicken House
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A child wonders why his grandfather has been made to live alone in a converted chicken house. Dad: It's not a chicken house!

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Taking Out the Garbage
From: Conrad Bishop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On the verge of love-making, a couple quarrel about taking out the garbage. The only solution: divorce.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Robby's Dead
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A cleaning lady tells her baffled employer that she has disowned her own son for going against the tenets of their church.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Settlement
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young working-class couple proclaim their firm commitment to their marriage, and, in the next breath, separate.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Better off on Welfare
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37