PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 46:55
Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:40
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
In which the theme of "February" is explored and heightened.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 17:50
Two stay-at-home dads don't find friendship, but they do learn the opposite of lonliness.
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 10:14
Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 18:15
An avid backpacker shares mishaps and marvels encountered while exploring a national park; A vagabond finds the Lone Star State more worrisome than...
- Added: Sep 20, 2012
- Length: 29:08
Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.
Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Every waking moment of his life Carl Kozlowski is in a struggle just to stay awake. He's fighting narcolepsy, that chronic disorder rendering the s...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Reporter and producer Christopher Johnson describes his frustrating year-and-a-half-long struggle to diagnose his chronic and sometimes painful diz...
Bought by XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 12:52
On this episode... two surprising, funny and spellbinding stories on the subject of prison.
Bought by WCNY, KUOW, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 7
The tale of a Dunkin Donuts, an armed robbery, and a high school girl I wanted to throw sugar packets at. The author almost loses his jelly.
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KUT, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Mar 16, 2010
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 4
It's his second week on the job as house manager at a major American regional theater, and an icon of the modern cinema is paying a visit.
- Added: May 12, 2009
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 3
