PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
You have heard many sparkling wits say that growing old beats the alternative.
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 01:17
Having an affair wasn’t bad. Getting caught was bad.
- Added: Jun 04, 2009
- Length: 01:09
In the next 10 years your electricity bill will at least double
- Added: Jun 03, 2009
- Length: 01:47
Can a man of 29 fall in love with a girl of 14?
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 01:52
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 02:21
In Maine it is either too hot or too cold to put on or take off storm windows.
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 13, 2009
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
There are people who are distressed at the thought of gay marriage.
- Added: May 12, 2009
- Length: 02:41
Corporate America has produced a pill that combats obesity
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 02:32
25 million or so people in Africa have died from aids and almost that many have the disease.
- Added: Mar 19, 2009
- Length: 01:11
Put him out on the speaking circuit for the next year and use his fee to make a token payment to the people he cheated
- Added: Mar 18, 2009
- Length: 02:14
The company asked me to sign a release so they could bill my insurance company $220 for something one can buy on line for $19.95
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 04:29
You might think your daughter is doing well if she is dating a grad student on a full fellowship.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 1
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: :29
One evening when my friend Winky was reading the newspaper he said to his wife, "Here's a man up in Rangeley who was shot for a moose."
- Added: Feb 27, 2009
- Length: :24
Have you noticed that all of a sudden there is a lot of opposition to the bailouts?
- Added: Feb 24, 2009
- Length: :16
In 1945 any American who had any kind of job could buy a home.
- Added: Feb 21, 2009
- Length: 03:19
The back roads and side roads often show us more about where we are than the highways
- Added: Feb 17, 2009
- Length: 09:25
Almost 800,000 dog bites every year are serious enough to receive medical attention -- 30 or so people are killed by dogs in this country in any gi...
- Added: Feb 17, 2009
- Length: :57
If you are not rich, famous or handsome, you don’t need to feel that you’ve missed out on something.
- Added: Feb 16, 2009
- Length: :54
People in northern Maine don't operate like the people in southern Maine
- Added: Feb 12, 2009
- Length: 01:12
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: :21
Radio commentators sometimes receive threatening letters.
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 01:55
Individual bank deposits are only insured by the federal government up to $100,000
- Added: Feb 10, 2009
- Length: 02:32
A sociologist at Harvard, has just published a study proving that everything is youth oriented in the present decade.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: :39
American adults demand quality entertaiment on television
- Added: Feb 08, 2009
- Length: :41