PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 27:37
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
The Tennessee Walking Horse has a natural gait that’s famously smooth. And, if trained in a certain way, it can perform a walk that’s even more spe...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 23:05
- Purchases: 2
At the signing of the declaration of independence, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all ha...
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 04:55
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 20:05
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
In March 1964, a 35-year-old African American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville, Florida. Fou...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 10, 2014
- Length: 17:10
- Purchases: 1
Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 26:55
In surprising and sometimes shocking detail, Kaycee shares what her life in a gang entailed, how her teachers changed her life, and how she's pursu...
- Added: Sep 01, 2012
- Length: 16:04
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...
- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 3
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...
Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 32
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Steve Moore learned about the nature of comedy at an early age. He refined his talents out in LA and just as his career was taking off he was diagn...
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 26:15
In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...
- Added: May 23, 2008
- Length: 29:00
One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.
- Added: Apr 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...
- Added: Mar 24, 2008
- Length: 29:00
This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...
- Added: Mar 14, 2008
- Length: 29:00
3-Day Teach-in in Washington DC on Global Crisis in September 2007
- Added: Dec 18, 2007
- Length: 54:09
In the summer of 2006, Linda Boutaugh and Keri Fuchs were victims of a violent hate crime. Their home was destroyed, but their relationship survived.
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 2
Alarming trends in school lunch outsourcing and a lack of home cookng has caused deep concern for the future of New Orleans culinary traditions.
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: May 17, 2007
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
A gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 11, 2007
- Length: 49:36
- Purchases: 1
