PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 53:32
Oprah’s show could boost your comedy career, and Jan had her crack at it! Hear how it turned out!
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
In a time when women couldn't even vote, she wielded incredible power, blazing her own trail to unrivaled fame and fortune. So why don't we remembe...
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 14:33
An innocent woman discusses re-entering her world outside of prison. She addresses the painful time spent away from her children and new possibilit...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 04:56
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and presented by Linda Pupke
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:39
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:49
A radio nerd chases her dream job. Also a love story.
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
Once you’re a mom, does your vision of the ultimate night out become different from before?
Bought by KVNF, WMMT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KUOW
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 05:28
- Purchases: 4
Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:31
This show features three moms talking about the elusive “work/life balance”. But is this even the right term for this perennial conundrum?
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 15:08
Dolly Parton, Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and more great female singers share their insightful, deeply personal stories about Willie ...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, KISU, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
When a married couple has a baby, is it fair for one of the parents to have to adopt the baby to make it their own? Why do the rules differ for m...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 04:39
I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 14:44
Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 03:07
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 4
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3