PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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The Duffel Blog satire news website is known as The Onion of the armed services, fearlessly pilloring military culture, saying truths to power with...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
95-year-old Richard and his daughter Margaret struggle with the technical details of their recording project.
- Added: Sep 05, 2020
- Length: 06:41
Comedians are put on all sorts of unusual stages, but comedy doesn’t really work everywhere! The jokes might be great and the crowd might be awesom...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 03:33
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 03:23
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
This Story was told on July 10th, 2012 at Aubrey's Place in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Here, Elizabeth Steeby reminisces on the horrify...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
This story was first told on July 10, 2012, and later produced for radio broadcast by Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Nina Feldman. The theme of that eve...
- Added: Sep 23, 2012
- Length: 33:19
A group of drunken Brits guides Sam directly into the path of an oncoming MTA bus, with unexpected results. This episode is an excerpt from the li...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 06:34
Freelance writer Jay Jennings, on a special edition of "Tales from the South", takes us along as he sits in the bleachers of an old Little Rock, Ar...
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 15:20
- Purchases: 3
Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Rudy Martin sets out in the pre-dawn darkness to find a legendary fishing spot, Gale Gill starts her engine and gets ready for takeoff, and Bradi R...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This week on Culture Clique, Olympian John Register speaks to us about the disabled community. While training for the 1996 Olympics, Register fell ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 31:46
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
