PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.prx.org/pieces/68507 (HOUR 1) and http://www.prx.org/pieces/68512 (HOUR 2).
Groundbreaking writer, actress...
Bought by WMNF, KWMR, KALW, Maine Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2011
- Length: 12:29
- Purchases: 7
A mother struggles to represent herself in a custody dispute when she runs out of money to pay her lawyer.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 23, 2011
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 5
Teresa Jackson was a 40-year-old attorney with a good job and a good life...but she wanted something more. "I figured if I was going to have a mid...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
In part two of our conversation with Choreographer Liz Lerman, we explore false dichotomies, including the one that opposes art to science
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 25:11
- Purchases: 1
Emma Stone talks courage, civil rights, and working from the outside in.
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 07:32
This was a rebroadcast of an interview with Boston-based animator, Karen Aqua. Karen died May 30, 2011 at the age of 57.
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Wayne Wang talks high heels, bound feet, and radical Quakers
- Added: Jul 12, 2011
- Length: 16:21
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross and Scott Keller of McKinsey & Co. about management challenges across divers...
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 58:59
I interviewed Stephanie in May 2011 about her 30 year addiction to heroin, her life as a prostitute to support her habit, committing burglaries and...
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 26:34
Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 15:20
- Purchases: 3
The woman who became a man so she could become a doctor.
Bought by KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 09:18
- Purchases: 3
Celebrity chef, agony aunt, novelist and the author of Ireland's first television soap Tolka Row: the remarkable life story of Maura Laverty who wa...
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 40:00
- Purchases: 2
A woman carries a baby to term for her best friend, whose chronic disease would make pregnancy hazardous.
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 06:58
Wherever you are, Pat Charette is probably swimming.
Bought by KUOW, WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 10:10
- Purchases: 4
SUGAR PIE DE SANTO is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 54:43
SUGAR PIE DE SANTO is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 55:15
Stephanie was born to alcoholic parents. As one of seven children where every single one of them became addicted to drugs or alcohol, Stephanie's d...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 26:14
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
Sugar Pie de Santo is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 55:18
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 6
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. With mounting hospital bills, Linda Contes and her husband struggle to make mortgage payments...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 11:11
- Purchases: 1
William Anthony Cobb tells his mother, Mary, about the influence she had on him. William Anthony also talks with his sister, Valerie Foster, about ...
Bought by WEZU, KBBI Alaska, and KUOW
- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 3
Marcia Camp parks her unique ride, Joanna Siebert searches for a bird and a connection, Bob Donaldson witnesses the birth of rock and roll, and Ken...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Sharon is a Realtor today but in the 60s, she was a nun. She grew up in St. Louis where the parish was the center of activity and, for her, enterin...
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 26:07
