PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
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In this radio travelogue, culture writer and journalist Bilal Qureshi explores Germany’s capital Berlin to find out about local origins, regulation...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Trump. Chicago. Chaos., Credit: ABC 7 Chicago
Yasmeen Elagha attends her first presidential rally, a speech by Donald Trump in Chicago. "I am a Muslim woman, I wear the hijab and I was going to...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: How does one get to the 19th floor?
Produced by two-time Peabody Award winning feature producer, Greg R. Barron, “The 19th Floor” is a light-hearted little “ditty”, an acoustic ariett...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
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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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Third Episode of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:25
Caption: The only known image of Mad Genius
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "Amend The Constitution!" Meet James Christophersen, a conse...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
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An experimental narrative music piece for Radiolab/Longshot Radio's project exploring creativity, failure and revision.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:32
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The first entry in our "A Year In Your Ear" series: "Doggie Sunglasses." The year begins with the GOP trying to outgun each other, Obama trying t...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:36
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First person narrative about unfolding events in a chaotic party house. One member of the entourage loses his wig just a little bit.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 11:30