PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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It comes in at just over 650 pages, and weighs-in at just under three-and-a-half pounds. It’s also worth every word. Why? Because, if there’s anyth...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Intolerance is increasing in the world of academia. A poisonous climate at universities and colleges is creating, what is known as, identity politi...
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hate. There’s no question that it’s on the rise in America and around the world. White supremacy, racism and xenophobia are all part of our polariz...
- Added: Aug 13, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The island became a workhouse in the 1880s. Converted to a jail 50-years later, Rikers Island is not a prison.
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- Added: Apr 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 14 years old. According to the American Cancer Society more than 10,000 children ...
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- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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The home ownership gap continues to widen.
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- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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Hindsight is not a good way to view history. Yet, we frequently see our past with an expression of “what if”. On the other hand, even the slightest...
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- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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Sleep. It’s one of the most mysterious things about life. No one fully understands why we sleep. Yet, we make things even more confusing when we co...
- Added: Oct 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There’s been a documentary, a Broadway musical, an HBO movie, and a memoir. The documentary, produced 40-years ago, is a cult classic, and has heav...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2018
- Length: 29:01
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There’s a growing awareness of solidarity among women. They refuse to be silenced. What began as a Women’s March in January 2017 has now evolved in...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...
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- Added: Oct 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Out of Bounds
Journalist (LAT) and author BILL CARLSEN discusses his compelling book "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & T...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Hillary Clinton has spent the last 16-years in government service, and 8-years occupying the White House. All of that experience did her little goo...
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- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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The first time a US Supreme Court ruling came out in favor of the LGBT community was in 1958. That was the beginning of a slow and arduous process...
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.
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- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 28:55
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A life out of the ordinary: Through memories, songs and poetry, David Baumgarten chronicles his early days in Southern California to his many trave...
- Added: May 08, 2016
- Length: 08:20
When Gerald Moore decided to try his had at journalism, his reasoning was very good. He needed a job. But what began, as a way to pay the rent beca...
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- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 28:59
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Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Most of us can’t throw away our smartphone or cut ourselves off from the Internet. But we can rethink our relationship with the digital world.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
America is the leading industrial country for incarcerated citizens.
Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, Maya Schenwar, envisions the possibility of a fut...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
You've heard part of this story on two NPR shows. Here is an extended interview:
Football is not good for us, Steve Almond concludes, it’s not goo...
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...
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- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
