PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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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...

Bought by KVNF and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 24:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
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
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
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
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features selections from recent issues of Quiddity, including “Sympathy for the Wendigo” by Tim Kahl, two poems from Kate Asche, as well as “A Leg ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 17:24
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What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
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A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also inc...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, a pair of car accidents are just the beginning for two stories about life, death and perception....

Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 2
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Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:07
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Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39
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A teenager explains what it's like to grow up with epileptic seizures. Gaining independence is hard work.

Bought by KHSU and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 09:34
  • Purchases: 2
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Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
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This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
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Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
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This year about 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant. According to The Centers for Disease Control teen pregnancy has risen three percent in 200...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1