PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Introducing "Keeping Dad Alive," a podcast that captures the voice of a father living under lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, and his five ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2020
- Length: :30
95-year-old Richard and his daughter Margaret struggle with the technical details of their recording project.
- Added: Sep 05, 2020
- Length: 06:41
Mementos Podcast pilot: How did an old dusty box in the back of a garage spawn a burst of grief, a period of reflection about a mother and daughter...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 29, 2019
- Length: 12:06
- Purchases: 1
What's the very worst way to learn about the birds and the bees from your parents? The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2018
- Length: 22:02
Tales of kids with an unbridled passion to hear wedding bells. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen to all episod...
- Added: Dec 03, 2017
- Length: 24:01
Driving with my Dad one summer evening, through his voice comes his his love for family, his influence on my life, and his radio career.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 2
Tales of kids whose pets weren't just their best friend, they were EVERYTHING. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. List...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 19, 2017
- Length: 28:37
- Purchases: 2
What happens when everyone in your family knows you're the black sheep?
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 18:09
A religious father refuses to let his daughter get corrupted by The Love Boat and other 80s pop culture.
- Added: Jun 19, 2016
- Length: 20:13
Just Say No? This is your brain on drugs? Find out the ridiculous and misguided ways teenagers actually deal with drugs.
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jun 12, 2016
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
The child of two Longhorn Band veterans digs into the unseen world of the band's strangest traditions, from "hupping" to the secret "10 til 2" saying.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 05:06
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
A teenager writes her diary to her recently deceased grandfather -- only to share with him every graphic detail about her love life.
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 21:46
Being a soccer mom is harder than it looks.
- Added: Jul 05, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 2
Victor Figueroa looks the part of a Hispanic, but some call him a "fake Puerto Rican," since he doesn't speak Spanish and knows few customs. Here,...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
Are you ever concerned that your pajamas are not seasonally appropriate? Fret no more. Ellery Stritzinger speaks to a professional about staying cu...
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 01:21
This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 10:13
- Purchases: 1
This was the winning story on the night of June 4th, 2013. The theme of the evening was "Famous Last Words." It took place at the Alvar Library in ...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 05:30
Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 05:03
Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 04:29
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
Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 1
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
In his essay, "Winter Projects," Aaron Brown lightheartedly looks back at his past tasks for winter. He also discusses the preparations, obstacles,...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:41
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
