PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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"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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the gender gap and gun control, and why it will make a difference in the next elec...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of equal pay for women.
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:30
When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:06
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
Kyndall Goss of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about healthcare.
- Added: Nov 04, 2012
- Length: :17
WNPR producer Chion ("khy-own") Wolf visited Solair Family Nudist Resort in Woodstock, Connecticut to fully experience, for the first time, life as...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
Misogyny is alive and well in 2012. No surprise ( After all,as you'll hear in this program, even the music of the "peace and love" sixties was fill...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 56:50
Author Suzi Parker confronts Duran Duran on a special encore presentation of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stor...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Author, Suzi Parker confronts Duran Duran on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
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
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 4
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
New York Times takes a look at a prostitute's MySpace page so we don't have to.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:16
