PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:44
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
Coyotes have been important characters in the mythologies of many Native American cultures. They’re often seen as tricksters with unpredictable per...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 11:33
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Rio, faces a big identity question. "Am I Mexican? If so how Mexican am I?" Let's just say Rio was raised a bit differently than prior generations ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:44
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
Shona revisits a conversation she had at the age of 17 with Andy Lipkiss, founder of TreePeople, and discovers that his story has even more relevan...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 14:26
How do you build a strong family after a crisis?
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 05:32
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
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
Where are you applying to school? Are you staying in-state?
Have you written your essays?
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:21
How do you slow down your life to spend more quality time with your family?
Can family traditions and religious beliefs help to ground you and your...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 04:54
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:18
How does travel overseas change your view of yourself? Can one person’s comment change your perspective on your life at home - and overseas
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 04:33
How do we balance raising our kids, retaining our careers, and at the same time find time for ourselves and our families?
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 04:04
Dolly Parton, Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and more great female singers share their insightful, deeply personal stories about Willie ...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, KISU, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:12
To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 03:48
How difficult is it to pick up and move your family overseas for a year ?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:33
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the ...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 29:09
- Purchases: 1
Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 15:34
- Purchases: 2
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
