PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 10:36
Not all comedy shows go great. Sometimes you wind up with a handful of very bad comment cards. Jan had this happen early on in her career. . .it wa...
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Oprah’s show could boost your comedy career, and Jan had her crack at it! Hear how it turned out!
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Short form audio fiction. In the tranquil environment of a luxury SPA, the inner thoughts of a woman trying very, VERY hard to relax.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 03:31
Christine navigates love and romance as she grows up.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 07:08
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
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
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
Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:51
This Story was told on July 10th, 2012 at Aubrey's Place in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Here, Elizabeth Steeby reminisces on the horrify...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
This story was first told on July 10, 2012, and later produced for radio broadcast by Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Nina Feldman. The theme of that eve...
- Added: Sep 23, 2012
- Length: 33:19
WNPR producer Chion ("khy-own") Wolf visited Solair Family Nudist Resort in Woodstock, Connecticut to fully experience, for the first time, life as...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 15:07
Author Suzi Parker confronts Duran Duran on a special encore presentation of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stor...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
One menopausal woman's search for the meaning of thong menstrual pads.
- Added: Aug 21, 2011
- Length: 08:00
Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
In August of 2009 I was 29 years old, single, and living in Iowa City. I wasn’t going to be 29 much longer, and I decided I didn’t want to be sing...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WNIN and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 6
Taking a first job at an inner city non-profit can be horrifying. But there's a lot of perks too ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
New York Times takes a look at a prostitute's MySpace page so we don't have to.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:16
In Southern California, everything depends on one thing: how long will it take to drive there? Whether it's where you work, where you eat, or wher...
- Added: Dec 15, 2008
- Length: 04:44
In Southern California, everything depends on one thing: how long will it take to drive there? Whether it's where you work, where you eat, or wher...
- Added: Dec 15, 2008
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 7