PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
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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A drama of a woman unjustly ostracized reveals deeper meanings, in a breakthrough work of Mexican cinema.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:26
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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
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As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
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There are unwritten rules that people are supposed to know without anyone ever telling them what they are and how they work. A micro narration in a...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:01
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A postcard from Lake Titicaca, Peru.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of the FEHLER podcast, Sylvia Cunningham, deputy editor at our partner radio station KCRW Berlin, compiles five stories that show j...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 50:35
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Marta finds herself - in a piece of cake.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:21
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Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:47
Caption: Ellie the Dog, Credit: Julie Lindahl
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
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From Bucharest, Romania, here’s Andreea Sirbu, she’s 18, just finished high school, and her story is about a conversation that made her realise -- ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Ian Henderson fishing on the Mahakali — in Champawat., Credit: Anietra Hamper
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 24:00
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Rod Clarance has traveled to more countries than you can shake a stick at. His Song Story is pulled from his memories of his first time in Europe.

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:22
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In this radio travelogue, culture writer and journalist Bilal Qureshi explores Germany’s capital Berlin to find out about local origins, regulation...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1
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World Pieces host Jason Kladiva learns about nomads in the Sahara from Ali Fakiri in M'hamid el Ghizlane, Morocco.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
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Isabel Goddard shares her upbringing in England, Spain and Colombia to host Jason Kladiva.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:29
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Sumeiya- a young Kenyan woman going to university in England – teaches World Pieces host Jason Kladiva about Kenya and it’s differences to England ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 06:27
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World Pieces Host Jason Kladiva arrives in Iceland and learns about how Icelanders identify themselves, a genealogy app and the importance of swimm...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
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Some extraordinary people sharing a bit of travel advice, insights and experiences from Moscow to the Camino de Santiago and destinations in betwee...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:50
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After we finished recording this episode over coffee at Safaa and Sedra’s apartment, Houda said that it was the most important episode we have reco...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
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An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Northern Uganda
"I escaped because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan." Beatrice Ocwee Reporter Gladys Oroma continues ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 44:12