PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Oprah’s show could boost your comedy career, and Jan had her crack at it! Hear how it turned out!
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leav...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:38
For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...
Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 31:48
- Purchases: 4
Girls Rock NC is a summer music camp that doesn't hide being a feminist organization that embraces all gender identities. Ninety-five teens and twe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
A radio nerd chases her dream job. Also a love story.
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 06:39
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 20:10
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
How do you build a strong family after a crisis?
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 05:32
How do you plan a road trip from one side of the continent to the other – or Can you?
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 05:32
How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 05:35
Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:31
This show features three moms talking about the elusive “work/life balance”. But is this even the right term for this perennial conundrum?
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 15:08
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...
Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 5
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 3
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3