PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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The Nocturnists teams up with two shame experts to investigate the nature of shame, and its role in the culture of medicine.
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 24:25
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 36
A quick biopic on the life of Tom Landry with a focus on his finest season.
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 04:24
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
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 11:33
Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:44
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:18
A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...
Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 6
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 16:11
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 06:31
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
Robert Jevne offers up his version of "Winter Projects." Jevne brings a bit of a different perspective to winter tasks with his insight into dams a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 01:56
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 10:56
- Purchases: 1