PRX - Pieces for Format: Essay

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

57 results


Closing the TaB
From: WFIU
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Box of Photographs
From: Paula Nelson
Caption: The negatives reveal the truth beyond the memory., Credit: Paula Nelson
A rich, intimate story of family, childhood memories, and rediscovering old photographs and the stories that connect them.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 1
TSR16-10 Melissa Ethridge
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Piece image
Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some ...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 10
TSR16-07 The Mavericks
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Piece image
With a Cuban-American lead singer, garage band ferocity, an intense live show and a deep love of both romance and pure country laced with polyrhyth...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, KPIP-LP, WPCA-LP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 11
TSR16-05 Michael Franti & Spearhead
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Piece image
Tune in tonight as Tent Show host and author Michael Perry welcomes our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra in the first set followed by bluegrass outfi...

Bought by KFCF FM, KMXT, KALH, KPIP-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:19
  • Purchases: 12
TSR16-01 Kahulanui
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Piece image
Kahulanui (The Big Dance) is an inspiration passed down three generations from Grandfather Robert Kahulanui Naipo, to Dad Rodgers L.L. Naipo Sr., t...

Bought by WRNC-LP, KMXT, KPIP-LP, KSJE, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:19
  • Purchases: 10
Why Cooking Sucks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
Piece image
This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
In Spring I Think of Vin Scully
From: Joseph Jordan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The most glorious spring in many years has the producer thinking about baseball and family history.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:24
TSR15-09 Jason Isbell
From: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
After working as a songwriter, in 2001 at the age of 22, Isbell joined the rock band Drive-By Truckers while they toured in support of their album ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WKMS, KSRQ, WUMB, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
TSR15-08 The Trouble Notes & Blue Canvas Orchestra
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Piece image
Gypsy jazz from Berlin, Germany along with Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
Leland
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
Piece image
A ten-year-old on deep space, death, and Revolutionary War reenactments.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 1
TSR15-02 Rusted Root
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Having collaborated with one another for two decades, Rusted Root, has honed the perfect combination of musical intuition, freedom and virtuosity, ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall
From: Amy Rapp
Piece image
LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall is an autobiographical dark comedy, written and performed by "This American Life" co...

Bought by KHEN-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Learning to Lie
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
Piece image
This week, we take a deep look at how and why we learn to lie, and what lying does to you

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
TSR14-17 Pert Near Sandstone
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Piece image
Minneapolis speed-grass band Pert Near Sandstone joins us for an evening on the Big Top Stage!

Bought by WRNC-LP, WDSE, Wisconsin Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 6
Dollar Size Pancakes
From: Kristen Garnier
Piece image
A quirky story about kid's observations of a Sunday Catholic Mass while being bored and starving for pancakes...set in the 1960s.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing: "Steve gives some terrible song lyrics a new opportunity by pairing it with inherited wisdom."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Piece image
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by WEZU and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg - "Family Lingo"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Piece image
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
Saving the Frogs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Piece image
Aaron Brown on rescue.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
Marriage and Severe Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Piece image
Aaron Brown on severe weather.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
Dingmantics #14: Sandra From Avenue Z (Live)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
Piece image
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
Reflections of a Former Tough Guy
From: Mason Sand
Piece image
A personal audio essay detailing one former tough-guy's transition into fatherhood. A humorous, reflective piece about moving through life with th...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 03:54
Jamie Lee on Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
Piece image
It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:20
Tales from the South 018
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Piece image
Hank Godwin, Chuck Butkus, and Daniel Koehler share about childhood mistakes. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
'Til Death: Love, Marriage and Valentine Sweethearts
From: Rosemary Langford
Piece image
Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2