PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary
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Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...
Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 6
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.
- Added: Jul 10, 2009
- Length: 05:22
Thousands of Bolivians migrated to Argentina in search of a liveable wage, only to find themselves sewing designer jeans in sweat shops under slave...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: May 21, 2008
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 1
After 60 years in business, Moosehead Manufacturing Company is closing up shop because of overseas competition.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
