PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Steve Barkan's Song Story reminds us that music has the power to awaken sleeping giants and move mountains.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 04:47
Jonathan Vallis remembers the first time he heard Billy Bragg.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 03:43
Rick Peate's Song Story will touch a nerve with anyone who's ever had the kind of day where all you want to do when you get home is bash something.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:06
Mix a dry martini, put a platter on the turntable and sit back as Mike Heron takes us back to the smooth sounds of the sixties with Herb Alpert and...
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 03:42
Pat Zakaib's bitter-sweet memory of friendship lost and found spans decades as she shares a frustrating tale of her travels from Paris to Athens.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 05:01
Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:20
In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 06:06
Sandy Senyk remembers his bad drinking days and hearing, for the first time, "some girl called Bonnie Raitt ..." It's "one of the best when night'...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:51
Artist and medical technician Deb Mueller Peate take us to her youth and back in a Song Story that covers four decades of memory.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 06:42
“I'll always have this wonderful memory of my father who loved to dance with his daughter, and still does to this day.”
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 03:41
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 13:56
The journals of a confused teenager who waffles between his romantic side and his raging hormones.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 20:09
At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.
- Added: Aug 30, 2015
- Length: 03:54
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 05:13
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
I hate high fives and have only tried to high five one person as an adult. It was Denzel Washington. He wasn't really into it.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
The diaries of a high school misfit who in an attempt to fit in found herself in a series of epic, embarrassing moments -- culminating at the SATs.
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 15:17
Victor Figueroa looks the part of a Hispanic, but some call him a "fake Puerto Rican," since he doesn't speak Spanish and knows few customs. Here,...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
Amina Al-Sadi is a 25-year-old American Muslim currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Amina explains why its a tough time to be Muslim in A...
Bought by KREV-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 4
Amina Al-Sadi is a 25-year-old American Muslim currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. This year in the west, Ramadan lines up with the summ...
Bought by KZYX, KREV-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KZYX and more
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 8
She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.
Bought by North State Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 14:29
- Purchases: 1
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.
Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 3
