PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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Music host Paul Ingles presents 10 memorable performances from Joe Cocker, who died December 22, 2014 of lung cancer after a career that spanned 50...

Bought by WFAE, KMUW, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, WMMT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
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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: Snap Judgment
There's an instinct. A homing signal. A knowledge that even when we try to ignore it drives us back to the place where everything got started. O...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatle Years and Beyond
Here's Your Invitation So Make Your Reservations to join me, "Everybody's Favorite Tour Guide", James D. Jones as I take YOU on a Magical Mystery T...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:59
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Wake up with swinging Latino, ease into convention and go forward but not out (yet). Blues, dark & sinister, and a brass odyssey. A Big Band char...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Friday afternoon, June 7, 2014. A judge overturns Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban. In Madison, the Dane County clerk announces his office will stay op...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KHSU


  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Becky J and Rahjta Ren, Credit: Jim Larson
When Becky J and Rahjta Ren perform, it's a close collaboration between a great singer and an imaginative keyboardist.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mexico’s passionate soccer fans and colorful fiestas are in full gear for the World Cup. Lilia Fuquen reports that perhaps the strongest pillar of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. A classical music motif.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shake it!, Credit: Oz Lang
A tender look at two modern photo technologies - Polaroid and digital photography - and the human and visual connections we make with them.

Bought by WYSO, WCBE, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KGOU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
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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Bookseller Laura Hansen is a regular contributor to regional literary journals and has self published 2 poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has also been...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:17
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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
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
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A panel of music writers and Lou Reed fans sample the late musician's catalog through the years and suggest what made him important to the history ...

Bought by WUTC, WPVM 103.7, KDUR, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCB and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 23
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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
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My life as a purveyor of “Business Theatre” for big corporations in Chicago.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Aggies." The Beat is a...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
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
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Mitch Skinner finds out how to survive while selling traditional books.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
Caption: Ann Rabson, Credit: Courtesy Alligator Records
Remembering Ann Rabson - highly regarded boogie-woogie pianist, songwriter, and founding member of Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:30