PRX - Pieces for Format: Commentary

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

65 results


Piece image
What does equine capital in a Grandpa farm have to do with Turing Pharmaceuticals and its bid to raise the price of a life-saving drug by 50 times?...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 08:57
Caption: The Dixon Ticonderoga Pencil, Credit: Bryan Ward
Author, producer and teacher Bryan Ward loves the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, but his relationship with the writing utensil has soured since he disc...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 03:42
Caption: Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on low wage employment -- and the worst offender is a big surprise.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Piece image
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
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
Piece image
(Short commentary under 2 minutes) When the votes are counted, the election night parties are over and the mud-slinging stops, voters (according to...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
Piece image
Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Rohit Bhargava
Host Phalana Tiller talks with authors Rohit Bhargava and Peter Post about the role that manners and likeability play in the workplace. And Rick W...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
A true story told live in London. As a trader, Shaun had it all - money, cars, women - until he got into dealing drugs as well as shares. This is h...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Let's Share The Wealth

  • Added: Dec 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:15
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Their employees have different retirement programs

Bought by KMXT, WRVO Public Media, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can learn things that will make you uncomfortable

  • Added: Nov 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can live on less. Others can't.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:48
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Chinese philosophy passed on to you by a Swede

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We are told that there is status in skin color

  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:14
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A Tale of Two Cities

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 14, 2010
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't pollute, you can sell your clean-air credit to those who do.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:08
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
What do you do when your computer quits?

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most men who work hard are very insecure.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Will Beg You To Send Money

  • Added: Jun 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When he felt the heart attack coming on he shot out the windows of the house next door.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Some say the war in Afghanistan accomplished nothing.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: :40
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Corporate America can make more money when pot is illegal

  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 03:15