PRX - Pieces for Format: Commentary Atom Feed

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

314 results


Piece image
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Swil Kanim (Lummi Nation), an award-winning, world-class virtuoso violinist and inspirational spea...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 19:47
Piece image
"I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes whe...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:22
Piece image
This is a sonnet for the baseball teams who after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon each played the song the Boston Red Sox play during a game w...

  • Added: May 05, 2013
  • Length: :54
Piece image
Music to commemorate the city of David. In multiple languages, you'll hear songs of refuge, hope & peace.

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Celebrate this Jewish holiday with songs of mystical, military, and marital themes.

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dizzy Gillespie
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Clifford Brown
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
Piece image
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:25
Piece image
In the movie The Interpreter, the character played by Nicole Kidman says, "Vengeance is a lazy form of grief." If we're honest, most of us have mo...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:08
Piece image
In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Andy features songs w/themes of sadness & loss to courage & defiance.

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Ian Lawton enjoins listeners to be authentic and mindful of true wisdom, by virtue of knowing our highest sense of self. Jen Sygit and Laura Bates...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 27:38
Piece image
Part 2 of 2 of the Passover story. Andy features themed-music, from iconic songs & spirituals to comedy.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Benny Goodman
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Co-Host Peter Kreten airs a panel discussion with Professor Cyndi Kamp of Saint Xavier University, Professor Jehanzeb Niaz nephew of Ghaffer Khan, ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:17
Caption: Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
Piece image
CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
Caption: Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems. Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: CD Wright
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections. Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Piece image
Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
Piece image
Hear the works of Jewish Grammy winners and nominess from Stan Getz to George Gershwin in this tribute to the Grammy's!

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Piece image
In this episode of Soulseeds Radio, host Ian Lawton is joined by original singer-songwriter Karisa Wilson to explore the quintessential courage it ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Piece image
Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 01:32