PRX - Pieces for Tone: Disturbing

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Caption: The Houlihans, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 26:58
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Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture In the past 50 years, the advent of television as a medium for advertising has ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Terry Menefee Gau, Kathi Shiff, Didi Tremblay, Mary Carpenter and Melissa Gray. , Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
We continue with the stories of five brave women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary Carpenter and Didi Tremblay—who like so many ot...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 27:31
Caption: Melissa Gray, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
This is part 3 of a series called #metoo. We continue with the stories of five remarkable women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 27:53
Caption: Didi Tremblay, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Five women over a couple of weeks and in a number of different locations shared their stories of micro-aggressions, sexual assault, abuse, molestat...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 27:05
Caption: Night Noises graphic illustration, Credit: Catherine McGuigan
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:43
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Is autism a disability...or an evolutionary adaptation?

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
Caption: Chris Gough, scientist and professor at VCU.
It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 27:37
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We spend the hour on an issue that should concern every parent: the growing evidence that the dominance of digital tech is threatening our kids’ de...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:55
Caption: Alan Schwartz
A high percentage of children in the United States are getting diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, as it’s become known.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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I’m joined by author and educator Jim Horn to discuss his latest book, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through No Excuses Teaching. Horn explores the ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:12
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New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has written an incisive, sizzling indictment of the college admissions process entitled, Where You Go Is Not W...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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The universe of classical music -- sometimes more, sometimes less -- figures in three of our readings for the week of May 18. Here's one of them, t...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Mr. Softee, the soft ice cream man!, Credit: Youtube
Another piece done for Weekday's ice cream show. I edited this piece.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
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Dr. Lori Baker, a forensic scientist, tells her husband, Dr. Erich Baker, about identifying bodies...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
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Would you want your children exposed to pesticide drift at home and at school? Potatoes grown in northern MN are routinely sprayed, putting childr...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Regional and international experts join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the global reality of child abuse and neglect, its impact on childr...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 27:08
Caption: Dyed Today with Granddaughters, Credit: Mark Kelleher
A Children's Playground in the Post WWII Soviet Union

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Lance Corporal Nicholas Rodriguez
Nicholas Rodriguez joined the Marines because he thought he could make a difference. His service changed Nick–and his family–forever. Nick’s mom &...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: child victims of sex trafficking in Pattaya, Credit: Phillip Martin
Thailand is considered an incubator for human trafficking…so WGBH Radio's Phillip Martin traveled to one town there to document the relationship be...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Durga age 8, Credit: Courtesy of the Owens family
An old cold case still haunts family of murdered boy.

  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
Caption: Columbine Principal Frank DeAngeles, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Can trauma be healed with architecture and design? Eric Molinsky looks how Columbine, Aurora and Virginia Tech have changed.

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  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:13
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL queries four activists dealing in various aspects of the autism spectrum from causal inquiry through treatment and public polic...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:35