PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Sexual Cyberbullying: The Modern Day Letter A
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012
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These days, many teenagers live half their lives on social media sites, and they're writing the rules as they go. One online trend 16-year-old Radi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Dan Sinykin gives us a succinct, clear, and intriguing synopsis of Molly Beth Griffin's coming of age novel.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda relaying the experience of skiing.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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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
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - Does your theme song, should you have one, send the proper message?
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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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: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Y" a book of poems by Leslie Adrienne Miller
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including "Y," "The Resurrection Trade" and "Eat Quite Everything You See" from Grayw...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Untitled by Jasmine Dukes
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
Dreams Money Can't Buy by Javontay Williams
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
See What I'm About by Antonia Pillot
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:24
Anne Elizabeth Moore reads from Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present
From: Radio K
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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
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan - "Love In the Ticket Booth"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
Audio Postcard: Zombie Fest. DIY punk show in Kazakhstan
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Zombie Fest, Credit: Alex Stonehill, The Seattle Globalist
Audio postcard from DIY punk music festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stubborn Roots
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Department of Education logo
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 14:46
Romantic Red Love, But Not in Sweden
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Robert Holmes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes talks about his family being among the first to integrate a neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 082: Winners of Arkansas Literary Festival Contest
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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Here they are, the winners of annual Telling Tales Contest, in conjunction with the Arkansas Literary Festival. Stories by Eric Van Meter, Sarah Mi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"I'm From"
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by K W Reinsch, Flickr
Carlos Vigil, from the YouthWorks program in Santa Fe, NM, wrote this poem-rap about growing up poor in New Mexico.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Addiction
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by @Doug88888, Flickr
Fernando Palacios, a junior at Capital High School, shares this exquisite poem about addictions to prescription pill.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Without Shelter
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Old School: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 5
Tales from the South 030: Arkansas Literary Festival
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Soundtrack to School Violence
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: Students of Violence
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Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 3
Puberty Rights of the Winnemem Wintu
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious, Associate Producer, Christina Aanestad visits with Caleen Sisk-Franco, the Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Winn...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:04
War and Conflict: The Gaza Strip
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by: Rusty Stewart, Flickr
The Audio Revolution! production team and students at the United World College in Las Vegas, NM teamed up to create this comprehensive show about t...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 27:15
  • Purchases: 1
"What is American?"
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by: Fabi Fliervoet, Flickr
In this edition of Audio Revolution! hosts Gabriel Rima and Savannah Chapman-Martinez take you into the depths of identity: What does it mean to be...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 27:40
  • Purchases: 14

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