PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over.
It'...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
95-year-old Richard and his daughter Margaret struggle with the technical details of their recording project.
- Added: Sep 05, 2020
- Length: 06:41
Comedians are put on all sorts of unusual stages, but comedy doesn’t really work everywhere! The jokes might be great and the crowd might be awesom...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 03:33
This week we take you to New Orleans, for stories told by legal scholars about what life's like as a legal scholar.
- Added: Jun 17, 2016
- Length: 01:00:41
Some people police their yards. Some people police their streets. And some people get together to police their neighborhoods. If you've ever been p...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 10:04
This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 10:13
- Purchases: 1
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
This Story was told on July 10th, 2012 at Aubrey's Place in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Here, Elizabeth Steeby reminisces on the horrify...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
This story was first told on July 10, 2012, and later produced for radio broadcast by Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Nina Feldman. The theme of that eve...
- Added: Sep 23, 2012
- Length: 33:19
A group of drunken Brits guides Sam directly into the path of an oncoming MTA bus, with unexpected results. This episode is an excerpt from the li...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 06:34
Sam is blindsided with an unfortunate realization on the Grand Central Parkway.
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 09:15
Sam makes a not-so-triumphant return to the Hilton, where an old nemesis rears its ugly head.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 08:49
An orange naugahyde sofa. A pay-phone. A river of chicken blood.
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 07:32
Just as Sam is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole cab driving thing, he becomes ensnared in the nefarious clutches of 31st S...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 08:35
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
A complex set of circumstances results in Sam awakening at 4:30am on a frigid January morning for his first day as a New York City cab driver.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 1
Mariano reflects on his road trips up and down the Alaska Canada Highway in a VW beetle that only he as a mechanic could appreciate.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Aug 06, 2011
- Length: 09:43
- Purchases: 1
This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week is about finding strength and confidence in big moments and in small. Darinda Sharp makes a famous correction, Holly Patton is shown kind...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Freelance writer Jay Jennings, on a special edition of "Tales from the South", takes us along as he sits in the bleachers of an old Little Rock, Ar...
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Rudy Martin sets out in the pre-dawn darkness to find a legendary fishing spot, Gale Gill starts her engine and gets ready for takeoff, and Bradi R...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
