PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque

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Caption: Tracey Wingold,LCSW
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 08:01
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Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Beloved Community Village at its new home, Credit: Rae Solomon
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
As Gwen Ifill is honored, as the Holocaust murders of the ancestors of Terry Gross are revealed, in the aftermath of the harassing effort to intim...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
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This piece is an exploration of the experience of children of immigrants.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 07:04
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The theme for this episode of "Speakeasy with Denene" is black.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Akins High students interview Larissa Akhmetova, Credit: Texas Folklife
Artist profile of Larissa Akhmetova (Stephens). This story is part of an audio series "See It Through My Eyes" created at Akins High School during ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:54
Caption: Producer Kate Murray teaching Sherry Holdridge about audio editing., Credit: Texas Folklife
Sherry Holdridge speaks out about her grandmother's experiences during WWII, polio, and the store Sherry opened, Oh Say USA. This story was created...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
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A new exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center in Maine called "Finding Our Voices: Ending the Silence of Domestic Abuse" opened just befo...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 09:31
Caption: An uninformed New York Times reporter didn't know termination reasons are already recorded..., Credit: Susan Cook
A conviction of a protester outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic brings up the question: when will the severity of the violence that follows fr...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:49
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The 54th anniversary of the Moon Landing reminds some of us that violence toward women and girls is still minimized.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 06:29
Caption: "...Irrelevant...how'd you get to be irrelevant...", Credit: Susan Cook
Attention Evangelicals! What if Jesus holds the Second Coming down in San Joaquin- you all stuck on the other side of the W--- that You Know Who ju...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: Participants Elizabeth Maldonado and Ezra McPherson in Connie's Kitchen, Credit: Danea Johnson, Texas Folklife
Musician Connie Jo Kirk uses food to share her legacy and love. This story was produced by Elizabeth Maldonado, Taylor Prewitt, and Ezra McPherson,...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kolor Showroom, Credit: Tom Howell
From Korean and Italian Business to Business importer to a local scarf designer Tom kicks off the season with a fun informal walkabout around the C...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:06:34
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Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho paddled thousands of miles in a canoe from Minneapolis to the shores of the Hudson Bay. The journey tested their physi...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 2
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The World Pieces Expedition hops on the bus and takes a ride to Detroit. Host Jason Kladiva takes listeners on his bus journey but discovers the v...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 06:49
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Manasseh Franklin wanted to make the melting of glaciers more real to people through her writing. So on an Alaskan rafting trip, she followed water...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: HCFA-1500 Forms are Required, Credit: Susan Cook
When women exercise reproductive choice, are her reasons for doing so protected as a private communication between a provider and a patient?

  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 06:47
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Legislators in Maine and across the country debate now bills to limit Reproductive Rights. Their limited or completely absent knowledge of the dep...

  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 07:09
Caption: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it moves toward justice."., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: :54
Caption: Boddhisaatva Vow
A Buddhist teacher talking about Compassion told the story of the leader ripping open his vein to feed a starving stranger. Bodily acts coming out...

  • Added: May 18, 2019
  • Length: 08:09
Caption: women power, Credit: npr
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:00
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When she became a mom, Andrea Sarubbi Fereshteh went from full speed ahead to a full stop. But then she found a place that showed her stillness is ...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 16:31
  • Purchases: 3
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We are headed to the circus on this week's Rough Draft Diaries. Although if you're thinking elephants and clowns, you're on the wrong track. We're ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 06:15