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From The Heart
From: Bill Slammon
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Story about my father's decision to stop medical treatment.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Gratiot" by Adam Levin
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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His grandmother's refusal to accept his mother's conversion to Judaism. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:47
"Metaphoric Race" by Novana Venerable
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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With a black father that wanted to be darker and an aunt that passed for white, Novana writes about how to accept her biracial identity. This poet...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
"School Agers" by Deja Taylor
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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The youngest kid in kindergarten, Deja stood up for herself one day by bringing up death... a lesson she had learned too young and was struggling t...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:19
"Spaghetti Sauce" by Tabitha Watson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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One young writer's lessons learning from a family member with a mental disability. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:27
"Fitting in" by Team Oak Park-River Forest High School
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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Peer expectations in a teenage world are strong, and being confortable with who you are is a hard lesson to learn. Addressing issues of faith, gen...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Morning Stories, Time Will Tell
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Morning Stories, Show Three expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 21, 2007
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Dad's Tray
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here he tells ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:09
A Cook's Notebook: Sorrow & Joy Cake
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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A letter to my cousin who I never knew I had.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jul 14, 2004
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 2
Of A Piece
From: Michelle Orange
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A father/daughter meditation on divorce, tradition and jigsaw puzzles

Bought by KUOW, KPFA, and KGLT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 17:05
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Chocolate Cake for Stanley
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Baking a cake for my father-in-law who has Alzheimer's

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4
Thanksgiving story
From: Holly Kernan
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A refugee remembers his first Thanksgiving

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WNCW, KRZA, WHRV, KHSU and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2003
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 42