PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
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This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:52
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One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 1
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On today’s episode of The Apple Seed we' re bringing you stories featuring young people who would gladly trade places with an adult, if only to esc...

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rudolfo Anaya
Highlights from a 2002 writer's forum in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that featured beloved New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya. FROM ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Join with us for an hour of great stories in celebration of fathers. You’ll hear from storytellers Willy Claflin, Martha Reed Johnson, Michael McCa...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
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In this episode we will see examples of some of the influential people and stories from one’s life, and how these stories continue to influence gen...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode of The Apple Seed invites you to reflect on stories of progress and change.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 53:40
  • Purchases: 1
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A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 57:54
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An hour of stories all about growing up, and learning lessons from family members.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:03

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
Caption: Kuku Sabzi for Nowruz., Credit: Photo by Mark Rinaldi / Serious Eats.
We spent an afternoon cooking three traditional Nowruz dishes with Saeed Pourkay, owner and chef of Taste of Persia NYC (www.facebook.com/TasteOfPe...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:45
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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
Caption: Toby and Jackie, Credit: Molly Haley
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
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To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
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Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
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
Caption: Photo by CasaDeQueso, Flickr
Claudia Cruz, a Capital High junior, explores an aspect of immigration that not many discuss: gender.

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 03:15
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
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Amy gives away hand-knit hats

  • Added: Dec 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:27