PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda has recently begun her senior year at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she'll be checking in with essays reflecting on ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jasmine Farmer
The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer.

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rohit Bhargava
Host Phalana Tiller talks with authors Rohit Bhargava and Peter Post about the role that manners and likeability play in the workplace. And Rick W...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
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In 2011, the University of California system sustained budget cuts up to $750 million. It marked a true financial turning point for the schools. St...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
Caption: Squaw Rock (DAH-N0L-YO) , Credit: www.noehill.com
Stori Sojourner weaves music, memories and ideas together as well as reveals a long time secret of her own. Guest on the show, Jessica Stephens, sh...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 07, 2012
  • Length: 30:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Abdul Kadir Farah, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Abdul Kadir Farah, a Minneapolis Edison high school senior, is one of many Minneapolis high school students who collect college credit while still ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Simorra Jones, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
As you step up from one level of school to the next, there is added responsibility, Simorra Jones, a Minneapolis Edison high school student tells u...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Sarah Griefnagen, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
If there is one thing that is on the minds of every high school student, it is getting into college. Sarah Griefnagen, a student at Minneapolis Edi...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Bruce A. Jacobs, Credit: via www.aliasbruce.typepad.com
Today we continue our conversation and lecture on Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs. In our interview we ask about what cities in the US are have t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 31:29
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On this edition of Don't Cha Know we introduce Dr. Rich MacDonald. We will get to learn about what inspired him to be a musician, hear stories of w...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Love your child by being deliberately obtuse.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Is there a correlation between income and intelligence?

  • Added: Jun 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Putting a blind man's tooth in his eye enables him to see.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Paul Loeb is re-releasing his book, ‘Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times’. On this edition, we’ll hear from Loeb...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Don't spend the next 10 years paying off your college loans.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
It doesn't need to be true if you believe it

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you have never replaced the wax seal beneath your toilet, I suggest that you do.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: :29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Last night there was a football game on television instead of the evening news.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: :52
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Every discipline has its own problems

  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One of my friends saw Chase Whiteside’s Youtube piece called Sarah Palin Book Signing as “[e]vidence that our educational system has tanked.”

  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Length: :33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who scrape together and repackage scraps of tired old worn out wisdom, but when it’s encapsulated they call it an aphorism, becaus...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 1
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A descriptive first-hand account of what a severe case of E-Coli is like.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:53
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can lose weight

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1