PRX - Pieces for Format: Debut (not aired nationally)

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

30 results


The People Could Fly
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Black History Month
Caption: Queen Mother Imakhu
Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2022
  • Length: 08:35
A MO-HO Releases His Trauma With The Shards Of An Honor Code Junkie
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: Composer Blake Allen with his Album Cover Shards Of An Honor Code Junkie, Credit: Blake Allen
Composer Blake Allen wrote a musical treatment of his experience as a gay man while a Mormon and a student at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 10:04
Sissies / Listener Testimonial / TAL
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Fundraising Pieces
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Listener, Mike Duffy of Manchester, NH, describes how listening to TAL episode about Sissies prompted him to come out to father.

Bought by Tri States Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
HOMELESS HOSPITALITY: PRIEST OPENS CHURCH PROPERTY TO CAR CAMPERS
From: Barb Seaman
Caption: The Reverend Jessie Smith, with two of St. Anne's guests, Joanna and Carla
The face of homelessness is changing, in ways that are not easily addressed by any one group or agency. More people have resorted to living in th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Why We Root: The 2013 Red Sox After the Boston Marathon Bombing
From: Eric Mack
Series: Why We Root
Piece image
On this Why We Root, a story of a classic American sports town and the season that started with tragedy but ended with a championship. We’ll recall...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Secret Art of Hair Replacement
From: Ellen Payne Smith
Caption: Women's Wig Display at Richard Theodore's Office
Hair loss is taboo and the measures people take to replace hair are rarely mentioned out loud, but for Richard Theodore on Cape Cod, hair replaceme...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 3
From Child Soldier to Stylist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Piece image
Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
Jack and Rose
From: Emma Miller
Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
A Dying Friendship
From: University of Montana Journalism
Piece image
Kathy and Diana became friends while Kathy’s mom, Kay, was dying. Diana volunteered as a hospice worker every Wednesday during the years Kay was si...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
Supermoms
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
Caption: Frimet Goldberger and her family
College can be tough but students who are also mothers have to balance work with real-life home work.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
"Death Be Not Proud: The Execution of Troy Davis"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Piece image
This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 56:30
Adoption Ritual
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Piece image
When Katie Perkins adopted 10-year-old Tajenae out of foster care, they created a ritual to mark the occasion.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Decisions Project - 16 - Ending a Pregnancy
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
Piece image
A woman shares her decision to end a pregnancy.

  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:18
John Marshall Alexander Jr, (Johnny Ace) December 25, 1954
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
Piece image
He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
14: A Different Colour, But a Similar Taste
From: Matt Hill
Series: Numbers
Piece image
Audio drama series from rethinkdaily.co.uk. Sam is dead and works in a call centre. In this episode, she calls her (living) mother for advice.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 13:06
Security in a New Homeland
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
I Have The Day Free
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of the only woman in Maine serving a prison sentence in home confinement.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:50
Stories of Lost and Found #4: Through the Window and Across the Street
From: Ryan Scammell
Piece image
An excerpt read from a girl's diary.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 10:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Underwater Birth of Francis Henri
From: Chris Bolton
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of my a young couple having their baby at home

  • Added: Sep 13, 2008
  • Length: 09:15
Native Americans-opposing Pigs & demonstrating S.P.I.R.I.T
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: NAMAPAHH First People's Radio Show
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program features interviews with two different women from two different regions in the United States, both who are standing up or their Native...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
NAMAPAHH First People's Radio: Manifest Destiny & The Doctrine of Discovery
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: NAMAPAHH First People's Radio Show
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An on air conversation and voyage through Western History and American Indian Law with Professor Robert J. Miller.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: May 07, 2008
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Running by Esther Ikoro
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
Piece image
Her first year in the competition, Esther says this piece is about being made fun of for talking "white". Esther Ikoro is 18 years old and was an ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:48
Kevin Goodman, Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows
From: Sarah Yahm
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows mardi gras indian tribe talks about his new life post-katrina in Austin

  • Added: Sep 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:12
Break
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Thoughts about the inevitable losses of old age and the value of a positive perspective in life.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
A Condition of the Heart
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflecting on aging, the illness and death of his wife, his own decline, then renewed social life by joining a retirement community.

Bought by WBEZ and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 2