PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption:  WHA75 "Walk the Talk", Field Recording, Credit: Kate, Partners in Health
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:47
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How we change nature and nature changes us, from wildflower picking in Israel to ayahuasca retreats in Peru.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:33
  • Purchases: 1
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For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 20:05
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Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 44:14
Caption: Beer as cold as your ex's heart
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:44
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A scientist recounts the harrowing quest for life beneath the ice

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 25:11
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For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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How difficult is it to pick up and move your family overseas for a year ?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
Caption: Flooded Streets, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy experiences some nostalgia for the monsoons of his childhood.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A true story told live in London. David goes scuba diving off the coast of Sicily, and gets into troubled waters - involving an airport runway, uns...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Visit countries where the standard of living is higher than ours

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
I hold up my pants with suspenders

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: :46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Read Mark Twain's English translation of The Jumping Frog

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A Chinese plane filled with yak dung crashed in Tibet this morning.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2009
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We are broke. How did it happen?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:05
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
when President Bush visited Iraq, an Iraqi man threw a shoe at him.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: :23