PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Welcome to melodically challenged, when this week, we’re honored to present a poetry-infused overview of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals:  “...

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
  • Purchases: 1
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TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of mis...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her lyric, immigrant memoir "Mother Winter." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Poverty, Credit: Julia Meek
This week's Folktale puts the musical focus on need--and hardship around the globe.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 6
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We’re going to take a look at a man who became wealthy and well-known well before that “new deal” and who suffered the slings and arrows of America...

Bought by WXDU and WJAB


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
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Some people will say they're going to do something, but when you look another person in the eye and vow that it will happen... You've gone to anoth...

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
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The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
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History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:01
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Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir ab...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
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Parts One and Two of Amy DiPierro's series on economic development, poverty, and inequality in Iraqi Kurdistan. These previously released segments ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 22:43
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Husseyin Baybasin is een Koerdische zakenman die, naar zeggen van zijn advocaat Mr. Adele van der Plas, al veertien jaar lang onschuldig in de Nede...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:37
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1