PRX - Pieces for Format: First-person essay

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Mother
From: City High Radio
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A teenager describes what it's like to grow up without a mother

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 03:35
Dr. Phil
From: starlee kine
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I learned how to write a break-up song to get over my break-up

Bought by WHRV, WHRV, WBUR's Listen Up, KMXT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 14
I Dated A Janitor
From: Idaho-audio group
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A woman spends a night on shift with her janitor boyfriend and witnesses the tricks and the hazards of the trade.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2008
  • Length: 49:31
This I Believe - Annaliese Jakimides
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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It took a personal tragedy for Annaliese Jakimides to begin to look for the silver linings in life.

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Michelle Gardner-Quinn
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn wrote of her belief in reverence for life just days before she was killed.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Aug 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 3
My Dad
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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For the past couple years, my dad has been in and out of jail. This story is about why. And it's about how my father's troubles have affected me.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Displaced with her family in northern Iraq, a girl dreams of education
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! A young girl living in a displaced persons camp in Iraq, talks about how she has never been able to go to school, and how life ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 05:15
Southwest Side Stories: Crazy Jimmy
From: Jillian Staranowicz
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The crazy neighbor that everyone has.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Mom's Good Move II
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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An update of the Long Haul Production's series "Mom's Good Move."

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 10:52
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Mom: I Joined the Marines
From: Curie Youth Radio
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An apology and a plea for a mother's understanding when a son joins the Marines.

Bought by KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUOW, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2005
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 8
Mumsy's Grief
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Elsaida Douglas deals with the shooting death of her son.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Adrift in Sri Lanka
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Marijke van der Meer was a tourist in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit and recorded her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Bought by WMFE


  • Added: Jan 27, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Barbara's Story
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Profile of an illegal immigrant, working as a cleaner, trying to make her way in America.

Bought by WDBM, PRX Remix, KCUR, KSUT, Public Interactive and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 18:47
  • Purchases: 7
Sinking of the Reuben James
From: Adam Allington
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
Reserved for Father
From: Elizabeth Dribben
Caption: PRX default Piece image
That's what the ads always say about the third Sunday in June. Father's Day. Reserved for Father.

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1