PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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An Acceptance Speech

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
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Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2013
  • Length: 13:16
Caption: Photographer Andrew Kilgore
On this month's Tin Roof Project, it's acclaimed photographer Andrew Kilgore telling his own true story.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Dianne Reeves
"I don't ever want you to open for me again" said Sarah Vaughan. The diva was paying her a compliment, but the modest Dianne Reeves didn't' know that.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Quilt from London Quilters exhibition., Credit: Walter Murch
Quilting binds women together through history and in community.

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 09:56
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This is an evaluation of Zhang Huan's piece "Seeds", which currently hangs in the Saatchi Gallery in London.A

  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:09
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Tattoos have surpassed lockets as a way of keeping memories close.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:06
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Attorney and entrepreneur Randy Komisar says personal growth comes when we let our beliefs evolve.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
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Contemplating a war rug made during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3