PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque

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Caption: Maybe sometime in the night when the wind blows..., Credit: Susan Cook
Greta Thunberg, in her UN Climate Change speech called on threatened loss of the loved, in her view, the environment to bring action on climate c...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2019
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: Handing off..., Credit: Susan Cook
Over 100 people have died from heroin and fentanyl-laced drug overdoses this year, in Maine. Maine’s governor says he will call in the National Gua...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:47
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Not long before the earthquake in Nepal, I drove by yet another SUV with the bumper sticker “No child left a dime.” Then, as now, I am reminded ag...

  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
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What would be the reason for the closure of off-campus lunch? Youth Producer Sean MacDonell looks into a controversial policy change at his rural s...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 12:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:13
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In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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Not just citizen soldiers, but student soldiers.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:31
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
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Emily and her cousin Sarah come up with a novel scheme to save her grandfather from his smoking habit. Rather than being rewarded, their efforts la...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 3
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Award-winning stories of queer kids abandoned by their parents to the streets.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMU, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 4
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Radio Diaries gave both Judge Jeremiah, a Rhode Island juvenile court judge, and Matthew, a 16-year-old repeat offender, tape recorders in 2001. Ju...

Bought by KRCC-FM, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2003
  • Length: 17:46
  • Purchases: 7