PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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Children are often shielded from a painful family past. For Ava Chin, a deep, personal hunger to reclaim her Chinese-American legacy led her to sto...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Pak Yan (left) and Joe Chan (right) at Friendship Park in Richmond, CA soon after they reunited. The text on the rock reads ‘friendship’ in Chinese
Born in Hong Kong, Pak Yan and Joe Chan were inseparable as kids. But when Joe was in the 6th grade, his family moved to the U.S. The friends were ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:51
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Topic 1 and 2 - “The Mountains Sing”: Trauma, Resilience and the Legacy of War in Vietnam, Topic 3 - An App That’s Designed to Be Your BFF

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:07
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Driveways 1
Andrew Ahn - Korean-American Filmmaker - Andy, First Birthday, Spa Night, This Close, Gentefied, Driveways

  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Farewell
Yong Ok Lee - Production Designer - Pandemic, We Go On, They, Grace, Dead Women Walking, The Farewell

  • Added: Sep 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Robin Lung, San Francisco, CA 3/7/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Robin Lung talks wake-up calls, color-blind casting, and the power of film.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 21:09
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
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Brian Perkins talks prophetic dreams, being a midwife, and the mistake first-time filmmakers make.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:37
Caption: Xu Haofeng, San Francisco, CA 5/31/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Xu Haofeng talks curved knives, revealing secrets, and what he owes War Kong Wei.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:30
Caption: Gao Hong w/pipa, Credit: Photo Provided by World Music Professionals
Gao Hong came from China to America in 1994. Already established as a world-class player of the Chinese pipa, she has gotten interested in the west...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: Henrik Meng on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your host, this episode of Making it Work Henrik will share what he thinks makes the Bay a special place.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 22:09
Caption: Dave Boyle, San Francisco, CA, 4/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dave Boyle talks cinema DNA, millinery metaphors, and moving out of his sister’s basement.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 18:56
Caption: Joko Suttrisno at home, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
We talk to Joko Sutrisno, leader of the Sumunar Gamelan and Dance Ensemble since 1995. He tells us a little about gamelan music, getting us ready f...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Iko Uwais & Gareth Evans, San Francisco, CA  3/11/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais talk silence as suspense, choreographing mud, and confounding the audience with a hotplate.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 22:56
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Writer/director Erik Matti talks by phone about politics, tracking shots, and why the hitmen in ON THE JOB are unique.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:13
Caption: Mira Nair, Mill Valley, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mira Nair talks multiple identities, defining fundamentalism, and creating dialogue.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 13:14
Caption: Richard Wong, San Francisco, CA 3/10/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Wong talks Hollywood vanilla, the aesthetics of falling wine, and the first time he saw Asian people on the big screen.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 16:49
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Ang Lee talks faith, storytelling, and being pushed to the edge.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:18
Caption: A photo of the Beijing rock band Hedgehog, taken from the book "Sound Kapital.", Credit: Matthew Niederhauser
A look at a fast-changing China through the lens of youth culture and rock music.

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:59
Caption: Sushi Song, Credit: Evan Roberts
"My father took me to a strip club to turn me straight...". A touching memoir of rejection, acceptance and forgiveness in Mr. Hsu's third period ge...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 4
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An interview with leading Tibet Scholar Robert Thurman on why the Dalai Lama matters

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 11:13
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This one-hour interview & music with Don Ho in Hawaii is the last he granted before giving his farewell Aloha in April 2007! Your licensing of thi...

Bought by WLNZ


  • Added: May 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma talks about his journeys east with the Silk Road Ensemble.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 1