PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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In the premiere episode of the new audio drama Flyest Fables, we meet Antoine, a young boy bullied in school, who finds a magical book that transpo...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 22:26
  • Purchases: 3
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Ms. Booth talks to students about her aviation-filled family history.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 05:39
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We talk with Sarah Zaske about what the Germans can teach us about raising kids. Her book is Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Rai...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
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High school students think they need to join a lot of clubs to give themselves the best shot at getting into a top school. Guidance counselors, par...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
Caption: Dainicia, Naomi, and Nya are 7th graders at Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts Academy in Maryland.
Imagine Katrina was just the first of a series of ever-more devastating hurricanes. New Orleans has been walled off because of a deadly disease. Th...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
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Love Harry Potter? You'll love the tale of a different sort of wizard school.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 20:19
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Witch-hunts are a curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cow...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 26:55
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Does Hollywood accurately depict high school life? Any high schooler will tell you “No”! Diamond Naga Siu embarks on her ongoing series called “THI...

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:18
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Dating can be different for Muslims, Hindus and Latinos. Even once they've moved to America, some of the traditions stay alive, and some die.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: Jesus Green, Credit: Ben Weisz
Every year, in a decades-old tradition, student drinking societies descend on Jesus Green in the heart of the English University city of Cambridge ...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
Caption: Richard and Moniko brushing their teeth with Mswaki, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Two Kenyan boys from different backgrounds, cultures and educations discover how to make toothbrushes at an overnight outing. This is how traditio...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:52
Caption: College students in a Maryland science class. Some professors are abandoning the traditional lecture because research suggests it's not very effective, but lecture classes are still common. , Credit: Emily Hanford
Most college students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. (9/1/2011)

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, WTIP, KZYX and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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News and features on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by WBEZ, KUNM, KWCW, Raven Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Here's why Cornell Park is the hot place to be.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:17
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This Story is Free! Youth Radio journalist, Berenice Akuamoah, 18, tells her story through a six-part radio diary

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2006
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
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What if you know you will loose your hearing at age 18? Kevin and James Hatch face this dilemma with surprising grace.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, SALTcast Podcast, KZSC, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 8
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This story is free! - An Iraqi girl describes her family’s preparations for the coming elections  

  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 04:09