PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 36:40
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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 43:00

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
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I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
Caption: Antarctic explorers discover a creature in a cavern, Credit: Astounding Tales, February 1936
On the 35th Anniversary of Alien, "The Icy Winds of Lovecraft" looks at how Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing were both influenced by the strang...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: :58
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Wonder Woman first hit the comic book page over 70 years ago. We look at how she's changed at what she means today.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 39:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Detain from Marcel's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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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
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A true story told live in London. As a child, David visits the home of British millionaire Richard Branson. Which happens to be on an island. Despi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
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A charity basketball game pitting a team of little people against a team of law enforcement officers goes very wrong.

Bought by WCNY and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 15:24
  • Purchases: 2
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The tide waits for no man, even when that man is waiting fo for the tide!

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 07:57
Caption: Gigi at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 2
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Ruminations on legacy, death, and imperial policy.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:54
Caption: The Masonic Temple, pre refab
The LVIS girls return to you this week (after a brief thesis-induced hiatus) with the Loss and Found episode.

  • Added: May 10, 2009
  • Length: 35:20
Caption: A Tranquilizer Chair inside the Glore
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 13:48
  • Purchases: 6