PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Journalists often face danger in the course of their work. Sometimes it’s from hostile governments, sometimes from warring factions, sometimes fro...
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 04:22
David suggests that we should pay more attention to Presidents' Day.
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 03:43
Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 02:17
We learned from the Velveteen Rabbit how toys become real. But all things become real and emerge daily from the secret source at the back of my clo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 05:00
The International Labor Organization estimates nearly a quarter of a billion children around the world work in some form of full-time employment. ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:30
David discovers a restaurant in Paris.
- Added: Jan 28, 2009
- Length: 03:47
Cambodia has one of the world’s worst records on deforestation. But there is a 2,900 acre preserve of forest where local villagers have realized t...
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 02:08
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.
- Added: Jan 07, 2009
- Length: 03:36
This audio essay is based upon a near accident during a winter weekend drive from Boston to New York City.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 04:47
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
Visitors to Jane Austen's museum are scattering cremains. Administrators there disapprove. So does Ian.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:05
New York Times takes a look at a prostitute's MySpace page so we don't have to.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:16
More cultural shorthand from the folks who offer cultural shorthand. We are not shorthanded in that department.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 03:11
on the day before their marriage his bride-to-be told him about all of her previous affairs.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: :28
Father & sons, the woods, and our feeble attempts at trying to figure out what it means to be a man.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, and KUT
- Added: Nov 30, 2008
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jan 02, 2007
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 2
