PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If unable to care for yourself, who would you choose as your guardian angel? After a harrowing health scare, Alexandra Drane shares her SUPERHUMAN...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 36:26
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 35:44
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If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:44
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
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“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
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
Caption: John Gallegos, left, is interviewed by Antonio Martinez, right, with assistance from Marquell Hicks, center., Credit: Laura Marcus Green
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
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Happy Father's Day! I'm an adoptive dad....28 years now and counting. And as a lifelong journalist, this program attempts to show...through narrat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 57:09
Caption: Carmen in Mexico
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
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
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...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KGLT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 31