PRX - Pieces for Tone: Thoughtful
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In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...
Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 3
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
An homage to Kendall Wild, the former managing editor of the Rutland Herald during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. He was eccentric, competitive, a...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 25:45
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
Robert Kenner talks fake pundits, hard facts, and media responsibility.
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 26:45
In this part of Oakland, deep potholes and trash mark the street. But then, there’s this perfectly manicured shrine. It’s an elaborate structure, d...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 10:11
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari talk moral standing, Dr. Strangelove, and the extended meaning of the word Aryan.
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 12:46
Eric Merola and Dr. Ralph Moss talk deliberate misdirection, the relativity of statistics, and going for the gold.
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 49:38
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Laura Poitras talks irony, leaps of faith, and being nominated for the Homeland Security Watch List.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 18:35
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:49
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin talk loopholes, dark money, and unexpected ironies.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 25:20
Jose Antonio Vargas talks little lies, big deceptions, and unexpected gifts.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 11:40
I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:29
Denis Henry Hennelly talks unexpected politics, the symbiosis of art and commerce, and the real meaning of apocalypse.
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 15:46
Freida Mock talks time, perspective, and the impact of the right image.
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 11:36
Herbert addresses the importance of free speech in our country.
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 2
Philly Congressman Chaka Fattah, lead sponsor of the Coop Jobs Act, KALW takes us inside the bike coop ColectíVelo in Oakland, and the Coop Job of ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 17:40
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
At 49 years of age, Michael Santos is getting his first taste of college. He's walking through the main quad at San Francisco State, beaming like a...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 09:35
In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 2
Martha Shane and Lana Wilson talk fear, safety, and putting people before politics.
- Added: Nov 09, 2013
- Length: 13:41
