PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 02:04
National Park Rangers Karl Rand and Russ Taylor share their views on the most distinctive part of their uniform.
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leav...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:38
The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:46
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
When 16 year-old Max Rakus set off to Germany right after his sophomore year of high school ended, he had no idea that the trip would change him fo...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:39
Sam hails from Bosnia, but she’s lived in the US for the last 6 years. Sometimes she finds that her two cultures have opposing values. Add to that ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58
“As a 32-year-old younger Catholic nun, I’ve been to countless funerals of our aging sisters. However, nothing could have prepared me for the death...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 09:31
Being a soccer mom is harder than it looks.
- Added: Jul 05, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 2
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
How do you cope when you find out at the birth - that your baby has Down Syndrome? What are the first steps that you take?
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Carmen, a Minneapolis middle school student gives a fine accounting of why she is as she is.
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- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:14
- Purchases: 1
A non-fictional piece about how I relinquished my power of DISSOCIATION in order to finally allow someone to love me.
- Added: Feb 03, 2014
- Length: 05:35
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 01:49
Does anyone ever believe they could actually be… that one in a million? Twice?
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 05:29
This story was told live on April 17, 2013 at the Old Firehouse on Mandeville Street, and later produced by Natalie Yahr. The theme was "Jackpot", ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 06:11
Hear stories of how some same-sex couples created marriage traditions in the absence of marriage equality in Washington state prior to November 2012.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:16
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.
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- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...
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- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
