PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Not My Job: Tales From the "Degreasing Room."
From: Chelsea Merz
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Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7
The American Dream and the Minimum Wage
From: WKNO
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Big dreams on a shoe-string budget: American optimism, or pure nonsense? WKNO producer Sarah Ledbetter takes a poke at our myths about the minimum ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUZ, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 3
Grabbing that First Chance to Vote
From: Appalachian Media Institute
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First-time voter Autumn Campbell from Jeremiah, Kentucky hopes that her vote really counts this year, because she has a list of issues that she wan...

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Reporting from the Red Light
From: Seattle Globalist
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A reporter's personal and ethical journey through Kolkata's red light districts.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:44
Leaving the Mountains
From: Appalachian Media Institute
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Growing up in rural Appalachia Machlyn Blair didn't think he would have much in common with teenagers from other places. But the current immigrat...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WGXC, WMNF, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2006
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 11
Minimum Wage and Mining
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Series: Living with Coal in Eastern Kentucky
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When faced with the prospect of working for minimum wage many mountain youth in eastern Kentucky choose to work in the mines rather than try to scr...

Bought by WGXC, WEKU, WXLV-FM, WXLV-FM, and WKMS


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 5
Preserving Values
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Smucker's CEO explains why Smuckers is a great place to work

  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 59:37
El Padre y Los Homies
From: Brian O'Neill
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Profile of Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries

Bought by KCSB-FM, WGBH Radio Boston, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 59:42
  • Purchases: 3
One Computer Voice Too Many
From: Laura Strickler
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The automation of customer service sucks the personality out of everyday life.

Bought by KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WZBC


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3