PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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1206: Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food, 7/31/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: David Chang, Credit: Jason Falchook
A special live edition of The Moth at Cooper Union in NYC, "Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food". Best-selling author Adam Gopnik and his wife have an o...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCB 104.9, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 38
1208: Language, Coins and a Proposal, 7/10/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Richard Kind, Credit: Sarah Stacke
Novelist Walter Mosley examines the power of language to break and form bonds; an artist connects with her father when he sends her coins he finds ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WYSO, KCLU, KCRW and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 34
1205: Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah, 4/5/2016
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Elif Shafak, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco; and a novelist decides th...

Bought by Vermont Public, Michigan Radio, PRX Remix, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 48
The Refugee (fiction)
From: LN Lurie
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While hitch-hiking through Serbia, I met a refugee.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
Sol (Remembering The Hyatt Disaster)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
Chasing Pictures
From: Devin Katayama
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Along the road, stretches from Louisville to New Mexico, there are moments that never live up to the pictures we take. But they're what we always s...

Bought by KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 11:04
  • Purchases: 1
Joking
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:18
  • Purchases: 2
Kidnap Radio
From: Atlantic Public Media
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"I was 19 when my father was kidnapped in Colombia. It was 1999. My mother came to my college campus to deliver the news and I flew to Bogota to be...

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 3
Heidi Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
Animals in Need
From: Joe Clemence
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The story of a constant struggle for pets to find a great home.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2009
  • Length: 02:00