PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe talks about the revolutionary life and work of Lena Horne.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Homo sapien, human being. Homo mustus, human doing. How much of my life is defined by my doing rather than my being?
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:31
I know my mother and my children, literally, from the inside out.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:20
On May Day, the first day of summer in the Celtic calendar, I celebrate the music of Turlough O'Carolan, the last great Irish composer and harpist.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 06:02
What catalyzes change in my life? Although fear and pain top the list, only inspiration is a sustainable fuel.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:36
When I first walked into the nursing home, I saw the residents as "living cadavers." Later I came to love them and celebrate their lives.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
Walking on a beach on Australia's east coast, I witnessed my birthday, and the birth of a new year.
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 05:11
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 01:15
- Added: Dec 30, 2010
- Length: 01:14
- Added: Dec 27, 2010
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 26, 2010
- Length: :18
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 20, 2010
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 19, 2010
- Length: :43
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever returned a product that malfunctioned?
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: :45
Ask yourself where your pet has been putting his nose
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 01:22
What did Brubeck and Mort Sahl do when they visited Portland?
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 01:08
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: :26
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: 05:35
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 12, 2010
- Length: 01:15
- Added: Dec 11, 2010
- Length: 01:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: :42
- Purchases: 1
