PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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This episode is split between two conversations–both about many things–but sharing the theme of protecting others and how that relates to one’s ide...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
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
"Where are you from? ... No, where are you REALLY from?" Because of her skin tone and features, Milani Chatterji-Len gets asked this question all t...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
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
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...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
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
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
The founder of Tehelka, an indian magazine known for investigative stories on violence against women is involved in it's own rape controversy.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Notes, thoughts and observations from a lifelong NYC biker on the art of cycling ( I have the broken bones to prove it )and what the real lesson is...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 57:53
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: 01:24
Kyndall Goss of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about healthcare.
- Added: Nov 04, 2012
- Length: :17
Here they are, the winners of annual Telling Tales Contest, in conjunction with the Arkansas Literary Festival. Stories by Eric Van Meter, Sarah Mi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An old boxing coach teaches a junior high school kid that one can't avoid the body blows - or the psychological pain to come later in life.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
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
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Santa Fe’s Earth Care International’s Youth Allies teams up with Youth Media Project to produce a compelling and emotional show about consumerism, ...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Feb 22, 2011
- Length: 56:12
- Purchases: 2
"Family Tree" is a short piece written and produced by Andres Ortiz. His piece is a journey into Ortiz's unknown family history. Growing up being...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 1
Justine Teba of Pojoaque Valley High School was a participant in Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensive. In this reflective piece, Justine sh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 02:00
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
Law professor Peter Keane believes even the worst criminals deserve to have someone on their side.
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
