PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
25 results
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
You don't have to keep your traditions. You can always change them to make them better.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 03:50
Lise Saffran explores her son Jonah’s decision to embark on a Jewish rite of passage, despite the fact that he comes from a secular home.
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:58
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
This story was told live on September 17th at 915 N. Dupre. The theme of the evening was "Worth the Wait?" Eve Abrams tells of her attempts to inco...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 06:12
October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
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
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
Hear stories of how some same-sex couples created marriage traditions in the absence of marriage equality in Washington state prior to November 2012.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:16
To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 03:48
Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:40
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Monsters? Attempted suicide? The "second hand smoke" of insanity? Bob will be the 1st to admit that clinical psychology requires a bit of a split-...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 04:42
Whitney Jones tells his story of losing faith and finding new ways to connect with the world around him.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis, HowSound, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 5
Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 28:30
Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 09:59
What do you believe? Talking about Faith. Contributions by: Matthew Lawrence, Rachel Blatt, and Brice Peterson.
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 30:39
Stumbling blindly through the late Sixties, a promising young actor finds comfort, then spiritual solace, after a series of coincidences alters his...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 01, 2010
- Length: 12:59
- Purchases: 1
Sealed explores divorce and its lingering effects. Nearly two decades after their parents’ separation, four siblings reflect on its aftermath.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 22:22
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 25, 2009
- Length: 04:58
