PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 20:05
Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 44:14
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:44
Stories from disaster relief workers Ian Burgess and LN Lurie
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 14:54
A scientist recounts the harrowing quest for life beneath the ice
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 25:11
Anna Reidy is unable to forget the sound of the "war games" her family involved her in when she was a child, in this detailed report on the organiz...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 10:55
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
After accidentally joining a traveling circus, writer Jonathan Argyle recounts his discovery of the meaning of the word "home" from the point of vi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 11:19
- Purchases: 1
She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.
Bought by North State Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 14:29
- Purchases: 1
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.
Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 3
You leave the radio on for your pet, before you leave the apartment. We'll find out if the cat and dog wish you hadn't.
Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 13:41
- Purchases: 4
For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
A couple who fell in love during Hurricane Sandy shares how their romance blossomed on the platforms of New York City's subway.
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
Storyteller Graham Shelby is thinking about the WWII veterans in his family when he serves as guest of honor at an unusual Christmas party - one he...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 12:29
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 5
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Will a kindergartner and a first grader find the same thing funny?
A school librarian in San Francisco teamed up with his Kindergartners to write ...
Bought by WMMT, KUOW, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 3
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 20:10
