PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 46:55
Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:40
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
Produced by two-time Peabody Award winning feature producer, Greg R. Barron, “The 19th Floor” is a light-hearted little “ditty”, an acoustic ariett...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 04:49
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
In which the theme of "February" is explored and heightened.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 17:50
What’s love got to do with the law? Then again, what’s the law got to do with falling in love? From coast to coast, Life of the Law occasionally ta...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 17:26
- Purchases: 1
Elna Baker, Michele Carlo, Christine, Steve Spatucci and Scott Whitehair share true tales of the Yuletide.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, KUNM and more
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 51:56
- Purchases: 17
Two stay-at-home dads don't find friendship, but they do learn the opposite of lonliness.
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 10:14
Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Please don't feed the large reptiles! An American in Vienna finds herself at the bountiful mercy of strangers; A man seeking treatment for depressi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 29:03
An amateur ornithologist stands guard over a nest in his mailbox; A troubled teen learns to love her pet bunny after it's too late; Brother and sis...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
A motorcycle man on a suicide mission faces an existential crisis; A jogger stands up to a pair of armed muggers; A youngster playing in the forest...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 2
A couple buddies drinking on a clear night are freaked out by apparitions in the night sky; All's well that ends well on a South American backpacki...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:14
- Purchases: 1
A Vietnam veteran recalls watching his tour buddy and a prisoner of war die at each other's hands; A young man drafted in the Korean War makes the ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 28:27
A storyteller watching an author read his work is distracted by what's going on outside on the street; A struggling college student finds comfort i...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:19
- Purchases: 1
A chaplain-in-training consoles the grieving at a busy urban hospital; A master storyteller is hunted by "patriots" for his refusal to support a po...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
War is hell on the holidays; A G-Man home for the holidays takes his fiancee to the Big Apple; A family departs from the Biblical script in a live ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 28:55
Houseguests speculate about their secretive host during a stay in The Big Easy; Police in Ecuador shake down stoner Americans; A man is mistaken fo...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 28:14
A young man discovers his sexuality and is disappointed; Americans traveling in Europe try to escape an odiferous stalker; An unusual cat doesn't r...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 18:15
A woman who has come to terms with herself reads embarrassing obscenity-laden entries from her teenage diary; Bloomington's first female firefighte...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Tin Roof Project #25 featuring comic duo Steve and Vicki Farrell. The Tin Roof Project is once a month and features well-known Southerners bringing...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
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
