PRX - Pieces for Format: First-person essay

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Reflections on China's Bureaucracy: Standing in my Underwear in a Shanghai Supermarket
From: STephen ASma
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Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
Fun, Intentional or Not
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Fun can happen by mistake.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
A Postcard from Paris: Getting from A to B
From: Janet Robbins
Series: A Postcard from Paris
Caption: Paris, 2008
Public transportation in Paris has been transformed

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Nov 01, 2008
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 1
Andre
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
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Andre sings beneath the streets of New York City

  • Added: Oct 26, 2008
  • Length: 07:00
When the Market Comes Home to Roost
From: Ted Magnuson
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Laugh at your economic problems, everyone else does?

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
If a Butterfly Flaps it Wings A Polar Bear Gets A Hernia
From: Joel Brussell
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Absurd Connectivity of Things

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 02:36
My Sister, Elizabeth Who?
From: ANITA PALLADINO
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Celebrities - Then & Now

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: 01:45
Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships
From: Nicholas Demarest
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This piece is a short essay about the rock, paper, scissors championships in Las Vegas.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2008
  • Length: 06:32
Flying Dream Sequence
From: Matt Fleeger
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The story of a recurring dream.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
Sleepless Nights
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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A day...night, rather, in the life of a high school senior

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Tears I Cry
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two Moab boys making hip hop music.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:42
Expression
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A personal essay on the importance of self-expression.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:01
Little Nips
From: ANITA PALLADINO
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Claws Encounter of the Worst Kind

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:27
Communityville (1st Grade Room)
From: David Green
Series: School Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Nine-year-old Madison looks back at the happy and creative days of first grade, when her class built an entire town in their classroom.

Bought by WTIP and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 2
Lunchroom
From: David Green
Series: School Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Third grader Evan remembers the simple pleasures of first grade: blue sports drink.

Bought by KUOW, WTIP, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
Essay: The Community Garden Waiting List
From: Andi McDaniel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Funny, quirky essay about waiting for a garden plot in Berkeley, CA

  • Added: Apr 14, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
First Passover
From: Sarah Neal (Neal-Estes)
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A touching, insightful, irreverent and funny view of Melissa Robert's first Passover with her fiance's family.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Vocalo.org, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 05, 2008
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 3
How I Lost Religion
From: Susan Kottler
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A childhood encounter with a supposedly punitive God

  • Added: Mar 16, 2008
  • Length: 02:44
This I Believe - Barbara Held
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Psychologist Barbara Held of Maine believes a little kvetching makes for a better outlook on life.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 3
The Tears of Hillary Clinton
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A paean to pain - Hillary's, and ours.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:06
Memory of a 5th grade rebel
From: Sarah Lange
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a reflection on childhood "attitude"

  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 04:11
Secret Asian Woman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Secret Asian Woman is a brief personal history of Mixed Race in America.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUOW, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Train Travel to Berlin
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Traveling by train from London to Berlin

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 1
Happy anniversary, Lego! Please go away.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Anybody besides Ian have mixed feelings about Legos?

Bought by Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2008
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Cyro Baptista: in his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Cyro Baptista in his percussion garage ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, and KGLT


  • Added: Feb 04, 2008
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 4