PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 05:14
Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season -- a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 33:31
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
What's the very worst way to learn about the birds and the bees from your parents? The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2018
- Length: 22:02
The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 24:06
What happens when everyone in your family knows you're the black sheep?
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 18:09
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
“I crawled through the underbrush, then I popped out into a beautiful, green clearing in the middle of the city. And in the center of it, about 20 ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 12:00
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
Author, producer and teacher Bryan Ward loves the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, but his relationship with the writing utensil has soured since he disc...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:42
A post- post-9/11 podcast. Part 1 of a series examining 9/11 memorials.
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 15:37
The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis.
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
The producer wrestles with inequality-related discomforts while he climbs Mt Kilimanjaro.
Bought by Aspen Public Radio
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 10:35
- Purchases: 1
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
Some think of Bambi. Some gardeners call them rats on stilts. Still others view them as little more than obstacles on our roads. Writer Andrew Hill...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 01:37
Commentator Andrew Hiller leads a sing-a-long with senior citizens suffering from dimentia, multiple strokes, and alzheimers with surpising results...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 02:23
A sentimental look at the closing of Andrew Hiller's favorite used book store.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Added: Aug 25, 2009
- Length: 04:58
Andy learns how to play the recorder.
- Added: Jun 21, 2009
- Length: 05:46
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.
- Added: Jan 07, 2009
- Length: 03:36
