PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
What is daily life like when your young son becomes your daughter? Marlo Mack explains what it's like to have a transgender kindergartener.
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 4
May 1, 2022 – What does a straight teenager do when he sees a lesbian schoolmate being taunted – and why?
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 09:10
If you had an opportunity to sit down with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris what would you say?
- Added: Feb 07, 2021
- Length: 07:13
A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 57:54
An hour of stories all about growing up, and learning lessons from family members.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 57:03
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 56:19
- Purchases: 1
Action figure collectables for adults is booming, even when kids are loosing interest in little plastic guys.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 18:11
- Purchases: 3
A series of random events in Nepal bring an Israeli reporter and a nepalese teenager to grow an unlikely bond.
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 23:57
What if an influential teacher set you on your life's path? What would that teacher say if she met you today?
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 19:07
A story I told for our embarrassment podcast.
Edited by the amazing Mr. Nathan Friend.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 01:26
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
The story of Antoinette Tuff, a bookkeeper who was filling in at the front desk of an Atlanta Suburban elementary school of about 800 students on A...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 24:57
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:00
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:12
Michael Goldberg shares his advice on trying new things. In his essay, Goldberg sets realistic goals for himself. All the while Goldberg is reflect...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:10
A personal narrative about a traumatizing experience I had in elementary school in Egypt.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 05:22
Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
