PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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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
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
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 13:56
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
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- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
Competing essayists Jennifer Nelson and Jason Steck debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think ...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the San Juan Ridge. On the Ridge, tucked away amongst towering pines, flanked by two forks of the Yuba R...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 28:25
A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.
Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 7
It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 21:04
- Purchases: 2
¡Gaytino! - written and performed by Dan Guerrero - is a remarkable life journey from 1950s East LA to New York’s Great White Way in the 60s and 70...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM and more
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 9
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
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
What is a home? Come take a look at the concept of “home” from a different perspective.
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:32
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 06:11
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Phyllis Dunham tells of her first experiences coming to New Orleans with her father...and his friends...
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 05:41
The founder of Tehelka, an indian magazine known for investigative stories on violence against women is involved in it's own rape controversy.
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- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 02:07
Labor Day was created in the 19th century by the unions, to celebrate the economic achievements of American workers. But if we look at the 21st ce...
Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Two and one half minute commentary on why House Republicans took their 40th meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare before getting out of town for a 5...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 02:30
