PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Making sense of my father and our estranged relationship with the music he left me.
- Added: Feb 26, 2021
- Length: 04:43
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 5
Author, producer and teacher Bryan Ward loves the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, but his relationship with the writing utensil has soured since he disc...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:42
Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
A fire truck in the driveway, 20 at the table for meals and buying by the dozens (the better for sharing) my father believed in being Santa Claus y...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
Bought by American Voices
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:56
Elk visit the ranch. Jessie and Pops sneak in for a close look.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 03:23
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 5
The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 04:00
"For most of my adult life, I’ve had my hands on the wheel. With lists on my mind and places to be and things to do. I’ve worked hard and tried to ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Each month brings its own special feeling. October is a month of apple-crisp days, cool nights and the sense that time is moving on.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
A personal audio essay about my Italian-American Nani teaching me the importance of showing love through cooking.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 06:19
