PRX - Pieces for Format: Commentary

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

631 results


Home Planet: Dear Santa, Make it work again.
From: Spokane Public Radio
Piece image
A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Who bows to honor this ordinary woman?
From: Barrett Wolf
Piece image
Poem for the Women who voted in Iraq

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Japanese "War Brides"
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Japanese American "War Brides" living in Fayetteville, North Carolina discuss their experiences with war, marriage, immigration, and cultural identity

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WETA, and WYSO


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 3
Dressy Girls
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An investigation of self-esteem, skanks, and the clothing of high fashion highschool girls.

Bought by WNJR, KFAI Minneapolis, WXLV-FM, WBEZ, KWCW and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 6
Home Planet: An Obstacle Illusion by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Often, what we think we see as an obstacle, isn't really there at all. It is just an illusion.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:06
Finding My Inner Belly Dancer
From: Ellen Birkett Morris
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman overcomes a lifelong aversion to belly dancing after attending a friend's recital.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:02
How to insult a man.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What men really want - according to another damn poll.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: A New (school) Year
From: Spokane Public Radio
Piece image
Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. No matter what the calendar says, for some of us, the New Year begins in September.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
Agnes De Mille - Relation
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Choreographer Agnes de Mille relates dancing to music. (1958)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Agnes De Mille - Script
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Choreographer Agnes de Mille laments the lack of a coherent script for recording dance. (1958)

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Agnes De Mille - Gesture
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Choreographer Agnes de Mille marvels at the universality of certain gestures. (1958)

Bought by WUAL and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Agnes De Mille - Composing
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Choreographer Agnes de Mille points out the handicaps with which a choreographer must work. (1958)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Inside The Clockwork Of Women's Careers.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Carol Tecla Christ talks about the choices women make between career and family.

Bought by WSKG and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 2
Blues File: Candye Kane
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
Caption: PRX default Piece image
review "White Trash Girl" album (artist: Candye Kane)

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 6
Tattoo Me n' You
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tattooists disgruntled. Why?

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jun 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Ursula Le Guin's Riff on Writing
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Piece image
Famed Author Ursula K. Le Guin talks about the art of writing.

Bought by KZYX, PRX Remix, KZYX, PRX to iTunes, KGLT and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2005
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 6
Slip of the Tongue
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Adriel Luis takes a different spin on the subject of beauty.

Bought by WGXC, YouthCast, and WMNF


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 3
Remote Control
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Using the functions of a remote control, Alicia Zakon tells the story of a woman who is stuck between wanting to be in love and wanting to be free.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: The Temporary Green of Spring
From: Spokane Public Radio
Piece image
Writer Cheryl-Anne Millsap reflects on the meaning of being "green."

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: In The Mood...For A Good Book.
From: Spokane Public Radio
Piece image
Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca's Name
From: Jenny Asarnow
Piece image
Rebecca, her many names and corresponding identities

Bought by PRX Remix, KVNF, Public Interactive, and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 4
Lust for Lipstick
From: B-Side Radio
Piece image
You might say producer Stacy Bond -- who grew up in Texas -- wears make-up religiously...especially lipstick.

Bought by The PRX Podcast and Public Radio East


  • Added: Jan 16, 2005
  • Length: 09:06
  • Purchases: 2
My Dad Died
From: Nanci Olesen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Seven journal entries chronicling loss

Bought by KISU, WYSO, WUAL, and WKSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 4
The Walls
From: Laura Vitale
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Girls' bathroom graffiti

Bought by KSFR, WBEZ, East Village Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Oct 31, 2004
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 4

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones