PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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When someone we love dies, how can a headstone express who they were? The answer begins with diamonds.
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 07:32
David Burris talks blood ties, the presence of the past, and where to get grits in South Africa.
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 15:50
What a beautiful thing it is when you see someone pull out a 5-dollar harmonica out of an overalls pocket and proceed to catch everyone’s attention...
- Added: Jan 01, 2015
- Length: 07:34
Three experienced players have formed a new organ trio that is one of the more promising groups on the scene, the JT Bates Organ Trio. In the piece...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
We introduce a selection of six very different Francophone artists with one of their songs in English. No need to understand French to enjoy the ...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music has always been driven by a combination of full time pros and amateurs. Their reasons for playing and singing are not always the sa...
- Added: Dec 27, 2014
- Length: 07:08
Timothy Spall talks paring things down, letting the character tell you what to do, and the lexicon of the grunt.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 25, 2014
- Length: 22:41
- Purchases: 1
In the piece, Bill talks about songwriting, and about working with his young bandmates, Sarah & Derek Birkeland.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Professor André de Quadros believes that music is for everyone, including prison inmates. Here, he shares his moving experiences teaching in two Ma...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 10:38
- Purchases: 1
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL co-founder Nick Prueher talks cultural anthropology, local angles, and topless darts.
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 20:28
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
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture, conceived broadly. Each Gem ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 05:58
Theoretical particle physicist David Kaplan talks the observer effect, the importance of the throw-out option, and why failure is sometimes success
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 31:49
Making It Work Radio Season 1-Episode 10 with Cristy Johnston-Limon, Destiney Arts Center Executive Director
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 20:07
A cool new French music duo Yépa, and a well-established artist, William Sheller are introduced in English together with other very talented singer...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 1
Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari talk moral standing, Dr. Strangelove, and the extended meaning of the word Aryan.
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 12:46
In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
Bluegrass, especially the old bluegrass, has a lot of nature references. There are many songs about spring. But what about Autumn?
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 05:13
Rita Mustaphi has lead Kathak Dance Theater for decades. Maryam Yusafzadeh has led the Persian-based musical group, Robayat for a similar duration,...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison talk chartreuse pants, staying in Oklahoma, and why William H. Macy is a prince.
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 16:54
Justin Simien talks satire, social mirrors, and the truth of life.
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 11:56
Damien Chazelle talks primal myths, subjective reality, and making Miles Teller bleed.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 1
For a long time, the fiddle was the only bluegrass instrument with a really deep catalog of tunes. But the other instruments have their places in t...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Romance, the fight against discrimination, a thirst for social justice, these are some of the subjects of the Francophone songs in this program. A...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 1
