PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 4
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WCNY, KUNV, KKRN, WTJU, and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
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Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story chronicles the history and peoples of America’s most famous and best-loved road. Produced by David Dunaway and...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Pianist, bandleader, composer and 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri talks about his innovative music which blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz. ...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 32:22
  • Purchases: 3
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Before you follow the herd and cancel your landline service, take a moment to rediscover the benefits of old-school telephonic technology.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:11
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
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To honor the young men who sacrificed their lives in the D-Day invasion, Brigadier General Casey Brower takes young cadets on tours of the American...

Bought by WJCT, Indie3 Radio, KVSC, Radio Catskill, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 17
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The story of the little bear cub from Capitan who became a national icon.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Doug Kondziolka of Don Juan and Miguel, Credit: Julia Barton
Renaissance festivals are olden, but they're also getting old. Many of the velvet-costumed, jousting, and sword-wielding performers at these festiv...

Bought by WOUB, WTJU, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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The legendary Farmington Diner closed to make room for a new RiteAid pharmacy.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
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An Itinerant Rabbi ministers to congregations in small Southern towns

Bought by KUT, WYSO, Marfa Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KCUR and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 7
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An interview charting the career of 1940s-50s singing star through her famous music

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview with 1940s-50s singing star Kay Starr

Bought by WUAL and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Interview with 1940s-50s singing star Margaret Whiting

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview with 1940s-50s singing star Margaret Whiting

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 21:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Family of Hasidic dwarves eludes Holocaust horrors

  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 11:19
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The Chestnut Street United Methodist Church in Portland, Maine deconsecrates the chapel in preparation for selling and leaving the church.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:49
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Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
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Listen to people on the banks of the Mississippi river describe the hardy bunch that survived on driftwood: the river rats.

Bought by KVNF and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2