PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
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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
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One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ooligan fish
Teresa Goff has been following an ancient network of trails used by the coastal First Nations to trade gleetna, or grease. Gleetna is made from ool...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:21
Caption: A string of ooligan fish.
The Grease Trails, a centuries-old network of trails through Northwestern Canada, described as the cultural arteries of First Nations peoples. Once...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:37
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How do you plan a road trip from one side of the continent to the other – or Can you?

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:32
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How do you plan a road trip from one side of the continent to the other – or Can you?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
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How do you cope when you find out at the birth - that your baby has Down Syndrome? What are the first steps that you take?

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
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How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:49
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How are modern grandmothers different from their predecessors? What does grand-parenting looks like in our modern world?

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 05:34
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Garth Mullins & Lisa Hale, Credit: Don Sawatzky
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
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Where are you applying to school? Are you staying in-state? Have you written your essays?

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: this is alex, Credit: @freakdog
It is late, and things are not going well

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
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How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 14:26
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How do you slow down your life to spend more quality time with your family? Can family traditions and religious beliefs help to ground you and your...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:54
Caption: Toby and Jackie, Credit: Molly Haley
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
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Does anyone ever believe they could actually be… that one in a million? Twice?

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
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Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: James Weekley, Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein
In West Virginia, people say that in the old days, communities turned into ghost towns when the coal ran out. Now they turn into ghost towns when t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
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How does travel overseas change your view of yourself? Can one person’s comment change your perspective on your life at home - and overseas

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
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Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:03
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Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
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What is it like to be homeless in the city that never sleeps? Reporter Kristie Brigandi takes us to lower Manhattan, and introduces us to some of t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 09:17