PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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Better off on Welfare
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Kenny's Birthday
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother visits her comatose son to celebrate his birthday, while her daughter is deeply frustrated with her mother's "denial."

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Lawyers
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
The Factory
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
New House
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother explains that they had to move because they're out of work. The child understands only that his friend's house is nicer.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Going Out
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A suburban couple plan to go out for the evening, but every option is fraught with danger -- they stay home behind locked doors.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Cheryl
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two parents, disciplining a teenage daugher, present a unified front -- of utter confusion.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Fixing Cars
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son disappoints his dad by deciding to forego college to learn a trade, even though he's clearly "college material."

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Medical History
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman tries to tell her uncomprehending doctor that she doesn't have her family medical history because, as an adoptee, she's legally denied acce...

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
One Computer Voice Too Many
From: Laura Strickler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The automation of customer service sucks the personality out of everyday life.

Bought by KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WZBC


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
Justin on the Inside
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Amy is a man trapped inside a woman's body.

  • Added: May 26, 2004
  • Length: 08:06
Corporate Social Responsibility
From: Paul Nelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An interview on Corporate Social Responsibility with Jeffrey Hollander

  • Added: May 18, 2004
  • Length: 54:36
Integrating Modern and Traditional Medicine
From: Paul Nelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Integrating Modern and Traditional Medicine

  • Added: May 05, 2004
  • Length: 55:31
Diet Coke
From: Holly Kernan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
what diet coke reveals about global identity

Bought by East Village Radio and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 30, 2004
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 2
File Sharing Vox Pop
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mick Pratt, youth reporter, filed this vox-pop, featuring teen opinions on file sharing.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 04:13
Dear Lars
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Commentator Ethan Jud shares his opinions about file sharing with Metallica drummer and spokesperson, Lars Ulrich.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
At Home with Ani DiFranco
From: WFUV
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A rare invitation to the home of Ani DiFranco, for an informal, intimate chat and impromptu performance.

Bought by WSKG, Stan, WCPN, WBEZ, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 6
For the Blood Is the Life
From: Julia DeBruicker
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Goat killing chronicles homegrown ingenuity in the mountains of Appalachia

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Apr 02, 2004
  • Length: 09:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Christian Standing
From: Hans Anderson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Paul hopes to die a martyr, but no one wants to kill him at first. Then they all do.

Bought by East Village Radio, WUAL, and WZBC


  • Added: Feb 24, 2004
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 3
Johnny Comes Home
From: Rupa Marya
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A 24-year old Marine veteran of the recent Iraq war returns home and tells us why he cannot sleep at night.

Bought by KGOU, WMPG, and WRFI Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 3
Journey of Man, Our Migration from Africa
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Radio Curious revisits a conversation about human evolution with geneticist Spencer Wells, author of the book and movie, “Journey of Man, A Genetic...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
A Cook's Notebook: Falling In (& out of) Love
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Love, or is it? A Valentine's Day dinner

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Lovesick Stream, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KZYX, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 5
Dyslexia: Identifying, coping and learning to read.
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dyslexia: What is this disability that affects one person in five? How is diagnosed and treated?

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Feb 08, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Valentine 1955
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Society's problem with race relations is played out between 2 little girls on Valentines Day, 1955.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNCU, PRX Lovesick Stream and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 13

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