PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Tin Roof Project #14, featuring crossword constructor Vic Fleming telling his tale about being lost in Moscow in the mid 1980's.
- Added: Jan 28, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Another true story told live in London. Joanna LOVES Dallas, so when Larry Hagman (JR) visits a nearby TV studio, Jo does everything in her power t...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 08:00
Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah says a global movement against Israeli government policy is breaking through. On this edition, Abunimah ex...
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A new generation is telling their stories of overthrowing corrupt regimes. And in the digital age, their lessons can spread more quickly than ever ...
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Former National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to the Press Club about challenges facing the United States and the recent military mission tha...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 53:59
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
Long before most Americans had heard of a place called Fukushima, commentator Graham Shelby spent three years teaching English there. He's been wa...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 59:01
The end of January in London sees the Harrods' sale end, the world news and a new Taxi Driver on the road
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 09:28
- Purchases: 1
There is always looking when returning to a place that is loved for memories sake as well as what it means to us today
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 1
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 3
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 10:56
- Purchases: 1
Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was rec...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell gets of a bus in Texas at 4am. She's coming back from Mexico with $5.00 in her pocket. She puts her bags in a shopping cart and re...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
There are many aid workers on the ground in Haiti. Some were there before the earthquake last January. Many others have flown in over the last te...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:37
Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but s...
- Added: Nov 01, 2010
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
