PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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What hopes do we hold for a climate changed world - and can hope be trusted to guide our way? Kyla Brettle turns on the coffee machine, opens the b...
- Added: Apr 28, 2022
- Length: 06:14
Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season -- a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 33:31
- Purchases: 1
Rain on the ground, a chill in the air, ghosts on the prowl. We're back from the Midwest with strange tales from the desert to the cornfields. Host...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
I am 16, and my piece is about asking different people about their experience on the Red Line, or the “EL” better known as the “Soul train”.
- Added: Aug 09, 2019
- Length: 08:25
What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: May 31, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...
Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 2
He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 26:10
Completed in 1887, Science Hall stands like a gothic red brick fortress, guarding the University of Wisconsin / Madison campus. Over the years, it'...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
On the streets, Danny compares himself to an animal in the wild that is in constant danger. Growing up around gangbangers, it felt natural for him ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:49
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
A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
What happens when two gluttons push each other to the limits... of food.
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 08:04
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 11:11
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 21:04
- Purchases: 2
A first person account of overcoming the urge for violence.
NB: The content of this essay is intense - addressing subjects of a sensitive nature.
Bought by KKRN, KUER, KCMJ Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 5
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 54:00
It is late, and things are not going well
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 04:21
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
Dan Lawton talks of his first assignment as a crime reporter in the 7th Ward of New Orleans.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 04:27
