PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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A Cook's Notebook: Comfort Tea
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Bitter sweet tea for a break-up.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jul 14, 2004
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Errol Morris on Harris execution
From: Connie Walker
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Errol Morris on recent execution of David Ray Harris

  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 20:17
RN Documentary: The World At Your Fingertips
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A look into the world of deafblindness in India

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KFAI Minneapolis, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 12, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Bush & Blair
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Why George W and Tony Blair 'get along'

  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
"Return to Rwanda"
From: Liz Jones
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A Rwandan woman who escaped the 1994 genocide prepares to revisit her country and family.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2004
  • Length: 10:55
RN Documentary: The Last Dutch Outpost - the Enduring Legacy of New Netherlands
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Documentary on the Dutch colony of Beverwijck which became Albany in New York, and the ‘world war’ that began 250 years ago, which was the turning ...

Bought by WRPI and New England Public Media


  • Added: Jul 01, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Haunted Cabin
From: Jake Warga
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Ever wonder what it would be like to spend the night in haunted cabin with a group of ghost hunters? No electricity, no phones, but lots of strang...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Boise State Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSUT, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2004
  • Length: 19:52
  • Purchases: 34
RN Documentary: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - War and Memory
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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How war influences identity and memory in both the individual and the national sense.

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, KFAI Minneapolis, KVMR, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2004
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 12
Short List 1
From: Tahj Condra
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A short list is sort of like a poem or story with the title at the end.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2004
  • Length: 01:22
Sinking of the Reuben James
From: Adam Allington
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
That's My Song: Under Pressure
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Series: That's My Song
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One boy's bittersweet association with a David Bowie song.

Bought by KALW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2004
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 8
Father's Day Tribute: Fix'er Up, Dad.
From: Joshua Kilpatrick
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A Father's Day Tribute to a Dad who love to fix things.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KPIK-LP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2004
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 15
Sleeves to Turkey
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A man describes to his lover the experience of consoling a friend who had just learned of the death of her father. A module from "Family Snapshots...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
What Matters
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A 20-something party-goer fights the apathy of his peers.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WZBC


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Finding a Spiritual Home
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A young couple seeks community through joining a church.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
Lend A Hand
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A college student dispels stereotypes about her generation.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
Health Insurance Dilemma
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A young mother weighs the costs of buying health insurance against the risks of living without it.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 4
Faye
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Faye, who has tried marriage four times, now sees her favorite bar as her family: It's happier and safer.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
German Measles
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother reveals to her daughter that, faced with a likelihood of birth defects, she decided against abortion, and was lucky. "What would you have...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
First Time
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An elderly woman, on her deathbed, reminisces with her daughter-in-law about their first big quarrel: the moment that first brought them closer.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
The Children of Logan
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The producer returns to her Philadelphia home and finds hope amid the ruins. The life and death of an inner city neighborhood.

Bought by WFUV and Audible


  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Adam Allington
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A small farming community in northern Maine reconnects with it's history as a WWII POW camp

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
Nightfall in Chester County
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, WRIR, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 16
Circus Life: To Catch the Quad
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A trapeze star of the 1920s, his present-day counterpart and a colorful supporting cast reveal the heartbreak and gritty reality behind the tinsel:...

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, Audible, and WZBC


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 4
Circus Life: The Last Sideshow
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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What is it like on the other side of the peephole? The Half-Girl, the Snake Lady, the Fat Man and others share their experiences and surprising vi...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, WETA, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 5

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