PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 2
Reporter Aurora Almendral visits one squatter settlement in the Philippine and finds out how one community leveraged their political power into hom...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
So do you think you’re modern? Well, only if you’re 100 years old.
Is it history that repeats itself, or do we simply not move forward in the ways...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 15:46
- Purchases: 1
Deborah Cooper has recently been named the fourth Poet Laureate of Duluth. Here the Producer of The Beat, Steve Downing reads her poem "Through the...
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Anton Treuer recently spoke at the Bemidji Public Library about subjects addressed in his book "Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Wer...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 40:35
- Purchases: 1
Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 1
How are Haitians who live outside of the devastated country learning about the fate of their loved ones? And how are they coping? Numa Perrier, a H...
- Added: Jan 27, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana has caused considerable debate and political discussion, but just what is in this plant which creates such co...
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 28:34
Are you jealous? Have you ever been? Do you know the origin of your jealousy? Jealousy often goes hand in hand with feelings of love, but where doe...
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 29:08
As part of a series of ‘Radio Curious on tour in Scotland’ we interview Jim Fairlie, the organizer of Farmers Markets in Scotland. Jim is a farmer...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:20
Taboos associated with menstruation limit public discussion of a primary event in the lives of more than half of the human population of the world....
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 28:55
Travels around Tasmania to learn about the fate of the little Devil
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 14, 2009
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 3
The middle of the 20th century saw both enormous growth and struggle for new classical music. Part of the struggle, according to composer John Cor...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :24
Every orchestra has a trademark - it can be their overall sound, an instrumental section within the orchestra like the Chicago Symphony Brass, or i...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :29
Conductor Arturo Toscanini was known as the poster child for bad behavior on the podium. Fortunately, the days of the yelling, screaming, raging t...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :25
The Piano Concerto No. 5 by Saint-Saens is known as the "Egyptian" Concerto, because it includes a melody from a song Saint-Saens heard while vacat...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :25
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has recorded nearly every piano work by Erik Satie. His music could be melancholy and mysterious. Thibaudet says Sati...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :23
As talented and exceptionally skilled as today's orchestra musicians may be, there are plenty of living composers whose music still presents a chal...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
