PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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A basement is saved from flooding by a masticating family; A camper braves the coldest night of the year in a Mongolian circus tent.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 19:54
An existentialist crisis prompts pondering of family roots; If you want become best friends with someone, just hit them with your car; A spiritual ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 28:55
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
Professional photographer, Aubry Edwards goes on the photo shoot from hell when Jay Thunderbolt locks her into the "private strip club" in his Detr...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 06:22
A collegiate football player aggravates his coach by doing his job too well; A woman orphaned at a young age pays sweet tribute to her stepfather; ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 29:23
Long-forgotten loose ends land a newlywed in the slammer; A mother comes to terms with her offspring's determination to follow an unlikely dream; S...
- Added: Sep 04, 2012
- Length: 29:12
Vivid vignettes from a single mom living on a commune in the Seventies; Alcohol transforms a normally reserved young man into a party animal; An Am...
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 29:35
Dock Ellis is one of the most memorable characters to ever play baseball. He challenged the baseball establishment, but always had impeccable stye.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KMXT, Louisville Public Media, KOSU and more
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 7
Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.
Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
On this episode there are mysteries to solve, sudden appearances and unexpected disappearances. Two stories about searching for something that does...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
High school isn't easy. Jimmy's high school experience was especially difficult. Now a student at the United World College in Montezuma, NM, Jimmy ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:33
Every waking moment of his life Carl Kozlowski is in a struggle just to stay awake. He's fighting narcolepsy, that chronic disorder rendering the s...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
Director James Edmondson takes us through the background on one of Shakespeare's best know tragedies.
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 09:57
Reporter and producer Christopher Johnson describes his frustrating year-and-a-half-long struggle to diagnose his chronic and sometimes painful diz...
Bought by XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
A silly subterfuge staged by a bored teenager has new relevance for his adult self; A family pondering the whereabouts of a soldier son spots thei...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 28:58
An Air Force radio operator recalls his haphazard training and deployment in WWII; It's love at first sight between a Native American and a poofy d...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 28:30
In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 12:52
A story told as a diary entry recalls the life of a six-year-old Jewish kid in post-WWII Canada; Crawdads in Barbie's pool and margarine tub boats ...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 20:38
A real-life "giving tree" offers comfort and continuity to the brokenhearted; A four-year-old shaves his head in solidarity with his cancer-stricke...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 23:58
A college alum reminisces about his bohemian campus lifestyle; An exotic family vacation is the setting for an illegal encounter with a sea mammal;...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 28:33
On this episode... two surprising, funny and spellbinding stories on the subject of prison.
Bought by WCNY, KUOW, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 7
A young man exploring his sexuality bounces between old flames and new; A student studying abroad is dumbstruck by a frozen wonderland; A youngster...
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 28:26
A bovine interpreter seeks udderly safe shelter from a storm.A man who lost his father to cancer draws strength from a man he never met.A construct...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 28:07
