PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Sixteen-year-old Shalvah Lazarus shares her own story and interviews other young female baseball players about the choice they face when they start...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 09:15
The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 24:06
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Kids at Martin Middle School discuss what Dia de los Muertos means to them.
Bought by RADIOLEX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 3
What happens when a teenager moves to the other side of the tracks and ends up with all the freedom she could ask for? The Mortified Podcast is a p...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 23:03
- 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
An incredibly shy teenager overcomes a speech impediment and works up the courage to ask out a girl.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 19:53
- Purchases: 1
The journals of a confused teenager who waffles between his romantic side and his raging hormones.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 20:09
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:00
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:19
Chloe Espinosa, a student at a Catholic school in Santa Fe, NM, explores the issue of gay rights in the context of religion. She interviews a local...
Bought by WDBM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 2
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
Youth producer and radio DJ Yithzak Ledesma explores his love of Tejano music and interviews a local Tejano DJ. Produced at LBJ High School in Aus...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
Texas student Alaa El-Saad believes in wearing a hijab, a religious head covering for Muslim women.
Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 3
