PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption: Joni Mitchell at Newport Folk Festival - 2022
Joni Mitchell's re-emergence onto the stage at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival had music specials producer Paul Ingles joining the multitude of musi...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 30, 2022
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 2
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One of my very first pieces ever: A chronicle of my adventures doing sound for an Elvis Tribute Artist and a large ish gospel Church in Madison WI....

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
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My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
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Join with us for an hour of great stories in celebration of fathers. You’ll hear from storytellers Willy Claflin, Martha Reed Johnson, Michael McCa...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
Caption: Transfigured Night, Credit: Testament
Leonard Slatkin on Schoenberg.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:30
Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: RCA
Leonard Slatkin on Corigliano Symphony #1

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: Nico Rodamel
Leonard talks about origins

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:52
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio has been a tonic for almost half-a-century. I have radio obligations to fu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:52:34
Caption: Emily Graves Webb
Emily Graves Webb as written and performed by Laurie Akin.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 11:40
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Magic: The Gathering, the international, collectible card has over 20 million players. So when Clinton's friend and "magic buddy," Brent, moves awa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Frank Sinatra turns 100 on Dec 12. A tribute from a brainy broad who learned to love him, Her Way.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 03:20
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A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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One hour special features Kelly Clarkson's holiday memories and stories about the songs on her new holiday music album, Wrapped in Red.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPVL, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
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"Bees and Cheer" is a rollicking good time. It's a huge folk concert that happens twice yearly at Yale University, and the show features the underg...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:23
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A ten year old summer camper runs and loses the race of his life. To hear Doc's show, click on the INTRO and 2 MIN links below. It takes a couple...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
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From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Doug Kondziolka of Don Juan and Miguel, Credit: Julia Barton
Renaissance festivals are olden, but they're also getting old. Many of the velvet-costumed, jousting, and sword-wielding performers at these festiv...

Bought by WOUB, WTJU, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 6
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WAMU's Bluegrass Country presents a Father's Day Special - Me & Dad

  • Added: Oct 12, 2009
  • Length: 23:00