PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Twenty some years ago, when I lived in Eastern Washington, I was out at a lake one busy summer day, enjoying the heat of an Indian summer. I wasn't...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 07:12
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A game I used to play as a kid. In the dark. With Mario (not his real name).

  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 09:10
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In this story, Walker explores the memory of a short but powerful conversation with her partner, triggered by the scent of fresh evening air.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
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- Scent number 20: Chanel No. 5 Perfume - Walker brings us back to her startup days when the coveted perfume Chanel No. 5 helped her close many bu...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:54
Caption: Ellie the Dog, Credit: Julie Lindahl
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
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If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:44
Caption: Alexander Kime Audio Producer
In the first half of this conversation with writer Keegan Jennings Goodman reads an excerpt of his most recent book. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 22:19
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Short form audio fiction. In the tranquil environment of a luxury SPA, the inner thoughts of a woman trying very, VERY hard to relax.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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Sometimes it takes leaving home to see it whole. Short form audio fiction, finalist in The Sarahs Very Very Short Short Stories contest 2016.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:20
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Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:40
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“A Time for Heroes” As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 31:54
  • Purchases: 1
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“Down the Rabbit Hole” This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
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If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 21:26
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In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Zeb's just found a trailer which is lucky because crocobass tend to enjoy their prey while it's still alive.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:09
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While hitch-hiking through Serbia, I met a refugee.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
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The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:17
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A baseball epiphany shared in sound rich audio … listen … (3:34) …

  • Added: Aug 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:27
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Third Episode of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:25
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Episode four of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
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In which the theme of "February" is explored and heightened.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 17:50
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October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features selections from recent issues of Quiddity, including “Sympathy for the Wendigo” by Tim Kahl, two poems from Kate Asche, as well as “A Leg ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 17:24
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Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 12:52
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When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:06