PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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The Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the construction of the 1200 mile Dakota Access oil pipeline because it threatens and places at enormous r...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 06:15
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 3
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.
- Added: Sep 01, 2016
- Length: 09:20
Rich recognizes the similarities between his childhood and the youth he works with in Urban Warriors. He stresses that youth have choices, even if ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 04:37
Alberto’s convoy security truck is hit with an IED in Iraq, and the military recognizes his service with a Purple Heart. After returning from war, ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 06:15
Noah’s childhood was full of instability as he and his family moved from place to place and shelter to shelter. The strict rules of the shelters we...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:49
Philip Armand inquires into the static in his perception and discovers a corpse, composed of a dwindling pile of cash.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 08:44
After fronting Delta Spirit for the last decade, Matthew Logan Vasquez decided it was finally time to try out his solo side. Not that he has any p...
Bought by KUCB, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 3
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:44
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 09:07
My experience of climbing the Roof of Africa!
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 22:22
The ambiguous world of first dates - behind the scenes in Washington, D.C.
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 04:12
Bobby and maties Cap’n Coletti, Tobia Spinelli and “Bert”, podcast while boating along the gulf and intracoastal waterways of Pinellas County, Flor...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 01:18:12
A story that Zack didn't get to tell at the Moth, live in Chicago: The summer Zack was thirteen he got up the courage to talk to the girl across th...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 04:27
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 03:39
Zakiya Jackson understands she loves shopping, but also knows how to make sure it doesn't become an addiction the consumes her.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
For LaKeva Brown, finishing school comes with an added caveat: eviction. In LaKeva's situation, she must prepare to support herself.
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 03:40
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...
- Added: Aug 03, 2013
- Length: 08:08
This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 52:58
Bobby speaks with "Papa" about life and loyalties 60 miles north of New York City, in what some have labeled the “armpit of Connecticut”. A place t...
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:25:02
Sam recalls the first time he heard the sweet sounds of Virginia Coalition.
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 09:45
Emily gives an inside look at “sportos,” “krusties,” “krinkles,” and how being a teenager isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 12:14
- Purchases: 1
Frankie always thought his family was pretty normal until the day the FBI showed up. His dad had been hiding from the law for 15 years, and Frankie...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, and WJCT
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 12:10
- Purchases: 3
This is Melissa’s second audio diary. Her son Issaiah is now one-year-old.
“I’m a really selfish person…I want to be treated as the baby. I want t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
