PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.
- Added: Jan 14, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Walking through East Berlin was never just a stroll, before the Wall came down. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Richard and his daughter Johanna explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes of our existence while exercising on Zoom.
- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 08:47
Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 16:19
- Purchases: 1
Under fire for more than 10 days, David Evans and a group of soldiers got an unusual call. It was for a medical evacuation. "I asked if it was one ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 07:53
- Purchases: 1
How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carve...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 30:48
- Purchases: 1
How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallac...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 38:36
Do you love America? No, seriously, Carvell Wallace wants to know: do you love America? Today, he talks with Van Jones and Rabia Chaudry about love...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 39:18
It's like visiting a small town...but it's also like visiting the remaining survivors of an apocalypse. Carvell Wallace goes to his hometown of McK...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 32:01
Going out and talking to people is a little thing, but it's also a big thing. Especially if those people are different from you, or might not like ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:01:00
How can we come together as a country when it seems like so many things are working to keep us apart? Host Carvell Wallace turns to Shereen Marisol...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:09:48
Who or what is in your own past right now that you need to face, but aren’t facing—and why not? Carvell Wallace has a theory that maybe this whole ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 57:02
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 you look into the eyes of someone who’s Bi-Polar, it’s like looking at a hurricane from space. You can see the swirling mass, but the real ho...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, The Story, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 5
What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 32:40
- Purchases: 1
What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:37
Kristopher Ohlendorf is a Media Studies grad student and ponderer of big questions. Like, why is that bicycle horn honking in the Beach Boys “You ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2015
- Length: 06:08
The Creative Pulse is an intense summer graduate program offered through the University of Montana. The perception of many is teachers have their “...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 06:24
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
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
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
This story is about a New Orleans native who leaves the city after Hurricane Katrina, only to find his way back...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 2
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "Amend The Constitution!" Meet James Christophersen, a conse...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 04:23
When you visit the West African nation of Togo, you're likely to hear the "yovo song" -- a song chanted by many Togolese youth that goes: "White pe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
The series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes with a story from Fontezia Walker.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:35
