PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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The story of our Black hair speaks volumes about our lives. So much love and care is wrapped up in our curls. Alongside so much vulnerability and p...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 33:10
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Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A friendly prank puts Kathryn in a "complicated" Facebook relationship with a sloth, but maybe that's just what her love life needs right now.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
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Physics, math, canyoning between buildings: Not scary. Finding an apartment, learning how to vote: Scary. How one young woman feels about making th...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:40
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In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Do women and men ask the same questions?

  • Added: Sep 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
What better place to fight over a woman?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Men used to attract females by the smell of their bodies.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2010
  • Length: :58
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One must be flexible if a marriage is to survive.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
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When I was growing up in a small, rural city, we didn't even know there was a closet to come out of.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:09
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The lunar/blood cycle governs many types of creation

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:42
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
The Ribbon Demonstration, on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima - what people could not bear to lose in a nuclear war.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Internally versus externally derived power

  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
The world through 94-year old eyes

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1