PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Eddie Ramirez remembers a cruising in the newest car he'd ever owned, black, all pow...
- Added: Oct 15, 2016
- Length: 05:34
Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Douglas Collier is a life-term inmate at San Quentin State Prison. For years he shared a 9'x4' foot cell with his friend Tony, a fellow inmate -- u...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 17:52
For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...
Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 31:48
- Purchases: 4
Girls Rock NC is a summer music camp that doesn't hide being a feminist organization that embraces all gender identities. Ninety-five teens and twe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 10:55
Need relief from all the juvenile antics of campaign season? From PRX's Radiotopia, "MORTIFIED'S TOTALLY JUVENILE ELECTION SPECIAL" is your antidot...
Bought by KPIK-LP, WUTC, KJZZ, Troy Public Radio, KALW and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 26
What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 32:40
- Purchases: 1
A religious father refuses to let his daughter get corrupted by The Love Boat and other 80s pop culture.
- Added: Jun 19, 2016
- Length: 20:13
Interrupting my Saturday night music radio show with some words about Muhammad Ali who passed earlier in the day. Ali's impact on me as an 8th gra...
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 46:15
On the day of their wedding, Paul Hammond and Laura Jackman reflect on their relationship — and make a commitment to each other.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 2
A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 20:25
What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:37
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 03:32
We hear from Amer Zahr, a comedian, writer, and activist who resides in Dearborn Michigan in this episode of Palestinians Podcast. Amer shares chil...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 40:27
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
The child of two Longhorn Band veterans digs into the unseen world of the band's strangest traditions, from "hupping" to the secret "10 til 2" saying.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 05:06
In the second episode of the new series, Palestinians Podcast, we hear from Rana Akleh, a doctoral student at Boston College. Rana artistically des...
- Added: Jan 22, 2016
- Length: 29:15
Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY ar...
- Added: Jan 02, 2016
- Length: 28:45
Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY ar...
- Added: Jan 02, 2016
- Length: 29:02
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
Physics, math, canyoning between buildings: Not scary. Finding an apartment, learning how to vote: Scary. How one young woman feels about making th...
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 03:40
Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
Seventeen year-old Shamarra Rombawa lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Her city was dubbed "Murder Town" by a 2014 article in Newsweek because of its h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
