PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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An aspiring rollergirl digs deep to qualify for tournament play; An avid backpacker communes with nature in Death Canyon; A wrong turn during a tri...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 1
2013 Lead Show track from Mikhail Tank's Darksoul Theatre
Written, performed and produced by Mikhail Tank
Published by Prince of Darkness, BMI
Stu...
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 04:23
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In th...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
An author tells the tale of her family's embarrassing surname; An accident-prone woman recalls her many unintended demonstrations of slapstick humor.
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 29:14
An avid backpacker shares mishaps and marvels encountered while exploring a national park; A vagabond finds the Lone Star State more worrisome than...
- Added: Sep 20, 2012
- Length: 29:08
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
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
The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer.
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
The Great River Shakespeare Festival's Guide to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
From: KQAL
Join us as Director Melissa Rain Anderson gives us the background scoop on this hilarious take on 37 of The Bard's well loved plays compacted into ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 05:49
Listen in as Director Paul Mason Barnes from The Great River Shakespeare Festival delivers background information on the well loved romantic comedy...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 07:21
Director James Edmondson takes us through the background on one of Shakespeare's best know tragedies.
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 09:57
In celebration of National Poetry Month, 12 poets are featured with their original works. Stori Sojourner stitches the poems together to create the...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 25:10
- Purchases: 1
Spoken word. It's poetry it's hip-hop and increasingly, it's the chosen means of expression for today's youth. On this edition, to celebrate Nation...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 29:01
This is the premiere episode of Virtually Everything is Handmade Radio. Stori Sojourner shares the inner workings of her being: From SF to Small To...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 07:48
- Purchases: 1
In which I write an break-up letter to improv comedy.
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 19:49
After twenty years of doing it, Mark Munger conveys this writer's "personification of pattern" as he recites this recent essay about his morning wr...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 09:28
- Purchases: 1
My buddy Sean and I decided to embark on a challenge: the ROYGBIV diet - spending a week eating only one color of food per day, according to the co...
Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 08:34
- Purchases: 3
Everyone is afraid of something. Here is what happens when one girl finally decides to confront "Bloody Mary."
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 1
“Music was unexpected. I always wanted to be a writer and I still do. I was always turned on by words, by the way people could use words and that k...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jul 28, 2011
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 5
Travel offers new experiences; some more pleasant than others. Dottie Lou Norwood shares an unusual nightly ritual, Brittany Edwardes escapes schoo...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 09:25
Bobby McFerrin has spent four decades breaking ground in jazz vocals – and his music always feels fresh. Hear how Miles Davis changed his life.
Bought by WMOT, CJRT-FM, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 8
"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
Three blocks of South Figuerola Street show us three faces of California
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 11:42
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 09:08
- Purchases: 1
An ancient obese female doll may represent a mother goddess worshipped by Stone Age people
- Added: Dec 05, 2010
- Length: :54
