PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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This week, four stories of people who don’t quite belong in the world where they live, who take matters into their own hands to create belonging.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Strangers... a stripper and a tattoo artist have a fateful encounter.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Radio for All, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 4
Mother’s Day is the one day of the year we set aside to honor mothers. Some do it with flowers and cards. For women who are in prison and their chi...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 24:57
- Purchases: 2
How do you build a strong family after a crisis?
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 05:32
Exploring my lineage one eccentric elder at a time.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
Where do you turn when you can’t afford to live in the city?
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
Personal Essay on working odd jobs to get by in Los Angeles, trying to find creative and fulfilling work, getting older, and, finally, leaving Holl...
Bought by XRAY.fm and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 11:53
- Purchases: 2
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Gospel Artist Great, Cissy Houston talks about her career, her children which included her daughter, the late great recording Artist Whitney Housto...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 01:00:36
Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability two years after experiencing an AVM, an Arteriov...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KVSC
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability some years after experiencing an AVM, an arterio...
Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In this humorous piece, Nick, a music teacher, tells the story of two Celine Dion songs and how they have helped him understand the value of music ...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 06:38
I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 02:17
This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 05:31
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 03:42
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
Anni's favorite place growing up was ... the school-bus stop?
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:16
How do you plan a road trip from one side of the continent to the other – or Can you?
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 05:32
How do you plan a road trip from one side of the continent to the other – or Can you?
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 05:37
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
How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
Adam Karlin talks about the Boat Parade during Lundi Gras in New Orleans, and how he likes it more than the more traditional parts of Carnival.
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 04:39