PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Sometimes DIY isn't the best way to go...and it can lead to disaster.
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 03:59
Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 02:39
An audio essay describing my lifelong obsession with sound. Appearances by my mom, circus clowns, and phone robots.
- Added: Jun 08, 2013
- Length: 04:52
Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 03:05
Some listeners take our pleas for support quite literally!
- Added: May 11, 2013
- Length: 02:23
My mom and I don't agree on much, but we can agree on one thing — potlucks are the pits. Produced for the 2013 ShortDocs Challenge.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 05, 2013
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
Collectors music - R&B from the 1950s to 70s.
R&B is a catch-all phrase that represents the then integration of "race records" and "popular" mus...
- Added: Apr 07, 2013
- Length: 02:49:40
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
Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 12:52
Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 23:35
Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 07:27
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
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
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
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldberg offers his take on tasks this winter with his version of "Winter Projects." Goldberg offers up a somewhat candid look at his frust...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 04:32
Steve Downing, like Aaron Brown, looks at his seasonal tasks this winter and why those tasks should be avoided at all costs. Downing specifically a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:52
In his essay, "Winter Projects," Aaron Brown lightheartedly looks back at his past tasks for winter. He also discusses the preparations, obstacles,...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:41
On December 24th BARNEY MARTIN became our 38th island castaway. Barney is someone who leads a life in duality with one foot in the white collar wor...
- Added: Jan 09, 2013
- Length: 01:26:23
Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:51
