PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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A gripping Civil War drama with an unusual twist.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 25
As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Today, the...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 30, 2019
- Length: 01:02:43
- Purchases: 1
If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:44
What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 56:15
Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 40:13
In parallel but separate tales, Michelle and Abe inherited immense wealth at a young age. For many years, they didn't talk about it, or know what t...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...
Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 3
A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother visits her comatose son to celebrate his birthday, while her daughter is deeply frustrated with her mother's "denial."
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
