PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Heidi Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
Hair Rollers, Religion And Growing Up
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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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
Cyclist Pat Williams' ride up the Mississippi
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Cyclist, gardener, and senior citizen Pat Williams of Jacobson, Minnesota tells about the greatest of her journeys, a six-week trek along the Missi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Are Men From Mars
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Do women and men ask the same questions?

  • Added: Sep 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Sarah Haskins on Pregnancy and the Apocalypse
From: Alison Weiss
Series: The Paper Machete
Caption: Sarah Haskins at The Paper Machete, Ricochet's Tavern, Chicago, 8/14/2010, Credit: Kurt Heintz
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
Shower of Love- A Valentine's Day Story
From: Jill Marcus
Caption: Newlyweds & cat - circa 1977
Valentine's Day, 1977 was our first together as a young couple. We thought we were soul mates, but how well did we really know each other? The gift...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:16
The Family And Friends Campground
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
What better place to fight over a woman?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:19
Fame Monster Pt. 1: Dumb It Down
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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Those who pursue a life in the spotlight have a lot of tough decisions to make about the things they choose to participate in. At the end of the da...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
Community Caring
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Sunday Father's Day Supper, Credit: Walter Murch
How do women share and care for each other through their ages.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 13:43
Attract Females Easily
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Men used to attract females by the smell of their bodies.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2010
  • Length: :58
V Day
From: Angela Regas
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"This afternoon, I have the most popular vagina in the state of Iowa. There are never fewer than two, and sometimes as many as six people gathered...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:37
She Changed Her Mind
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One must be flexible if a marriage is to survive.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
Quilting through History
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Quilt from London Quilters exhibition., Credit: Walter Murch
Quilting binds women together through history and in community.

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 09:56
MA-143 Good Enough Mom
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
Southern Ties: Nourishment and Death
From: Carroll Dale Short
Caption: The omnipresent casserole
A brief reflection, upon the death of my grandmother, on the ways that food and death are inextricably linked in Southern culture.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Topless Women March Through Maine
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Today we witnessed the worst kind of media discrimination.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:33
Proud to be a Nerd
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
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There's a tipping point in every nerd's life - the moment they accept it's cool to be, well ... uncool.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KDNK, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 4
There's No Miss Manners for the iPhone
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
Caption: iPhone, Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, Gonzalo Baeza Hernández
Essayist Tracy Wu explains why we need an Emily Post for the digital age ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Few Good Women
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Smith and Miss Jones
From: Susan Kottler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When I was growing up in a small, rural city, we didn't even know there was a closet to come out of.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:09
Looking for Love
From: Angela Regas
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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
The Undreaming
From: Kendra Greene
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A high school valedictorian owes the class on '97 a retraction: Don't follow your dreams. Seriously, it's a terrible idea.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2010
  • Length: 09:58
Surprise Guest
From: World Vision Report
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In India recently, a large gathering of women welcomed reporter Will Everett to a special celebration. But Will wasn’t happy about it. In fact, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Valentine's Day
From: Spokane Public Radio
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The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Bridget Ramasodi (South Africa's Promise)
From: My Lens Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24

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