PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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From the Super Bowl to the Vaccination roll out we have seen great examples of leadership. In the Super Bowl we saw Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat one...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:10
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I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:17
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on discrimination at Muirfield, the golf club hosting the 2013 British Open.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of opening Augusta National Golf Club to women.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Robert Jevne discusses his former love of the Chicago Cubs in a lighthearted tone and how their incessant losing seasons defeated his passion for b...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Notes, thoughts and observations from a lifelong NYC biker on the art of cycling ( I have the broken bones to prove it )and what the real lesson is...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 57:53
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Runners line up at the start of the Great Limerick Run 2012
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:31
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It's time to re-enter the temples of baseball.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: April Nelson, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
When you play high school volleyball, you have to learn the moves that make your team competitive. April Nelson tells us about it.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Lee Mier, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Jesse Clabo, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People can do things animals can't do.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: :56
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For fourteen year-old Inonge Sitali, a radio dialogue with her peers about the 2010 FIFA World Cup is an opportunity for her to talk about gender i...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Joe is a skater--as in skateboarder. He hates bike cops, and he's sure they hate him, too. In this short personal essay, Joe explains where his pre...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Why the press hounds Tiger Woods

  • Added: Apr 06, 2010
  • Length: :31
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The first time an olympic gold medal winner had to think for himself, he did something stupid.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: :55
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Now we know why Tiger Woods was always smiling

  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: :19
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you are a famous married man who keeps 10 or 20 girlfriends on the side to take up the slack, sooner or later everyone in the world is going to ...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: :29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A football player for the Boston Redskins made the Guineas Book of Records by playing 12 months without having broken knees or cartilage repaired b...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :41

  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2