PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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What is librarian Emily's biggest fear? Not being able to finish all the books she is in the middle of.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: you're not around, Credit: pscm
When all you need is someone to answer the phone

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: :54
Caption: this is alex, Credit: @freakdog
It is late, and things are not going well

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
Caption: Fiberglass Wiarton Willie, Credit: Bryan Ward
Alta Blue Skies contributor Catherine Breese offers a brief look at Canada's version of Punxsutawney Phil and the town that created him, Wiarton, O...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:05
Caption: Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
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A quirky story about kid's observations of a Sunday Catholic Mass while being bored and starving for pancakes...set in the 1960s.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
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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
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Steve Spatucci tells of his childhood quest to find Santa Claus

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:03
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Among the many thousands of mommies in the blog-o-sphere writing about parenting-its troubles and its triumphs, how do you stand out from the rest?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Nobel Prize winner John Northrup, in earlier days.
Nobel Prize winners may be hiding in plain sight, ready to help the most clueless junior high kid on his science project.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 12:56
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Two stay-at-home dads don't find friendship, but they do learn the opposite of lonliness.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 10:14
Caption: Tom Llewellyn and the wrapper for his Thunder Bombs, Credit: David Matsui
As a kid, Tom Llewellyn fought gentrification with his beloved Thunder Bombs.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:52
Caption: Author, teacher and altablueskies.com contributor Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Most of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about garbage, but author, teacher and altablueskies.com contributor Catherine Breese does. In this e...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 10:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christmas Tree Shopping, Credit: Scott Schnur
I went home for Christmas and tried to make an audio piece without too much drama. Here's what happened instead

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 07:34
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What a Bad Introduction Sounds Like

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:02
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Sometimes DIY isn't the best way to go...and it can lead to disaster.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
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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
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Online Humility and Superlatives

  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:50
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Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:05
Caption: "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry", Credit: Brittany Jencks
Some listeners take our pleas for support quite literally!

  • Added: May 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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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
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 23:35
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Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:41