PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 12:18
Joni Mitchell's re-emergence onto the stage at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival had music specials producer Paul Ingles joining the multitude of musi...
Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 30, 2022
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 2
The Skyluck Journals from CBC Radio's The Doc Project won the Gold Medal in the History Category at the 2022 New York Festivals.
In 1979 Andrew Ng...
Bought by KUHF, KWGS, KFAI Minneapolis, KCPW Salt Lake City, Prairie Public and more
- Added: May 25, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 19:47
An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.
Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Kathryn Chesney
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Emily Graves Webb as written and performed by Laurie Akin.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 11:40
John Webb as written and presented by Richard Caldwell
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 08:30
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:01
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and presented by Linda Pupke
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:39
Will Webb as written and performed by William V. Specht
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:15
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:49
He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 26:10
Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 19:55
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...
- Added: Jan 09, 2016
- Length: 06:50
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 1
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
