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From Nothing, Into Something
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2020
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This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 07:29
Neddy Smith: Harmonizing Cries of Excitement and Pain
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Geography - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional s...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
Change is Challenging
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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The summer before her sophomore year of high school, Audrey’s parents filed for a divorce. This momentous change affected her views on family, marr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
A Purple Heart
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
NYC Student Tackles the Last Test Standing Between Her and a High School Diploma
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Danielle Motindabeka in the WNYC studio
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Teen Mom Reality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
The Cost of a Break-Up
From: Game Theory Academy
Series: Money Diaries
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La' Trisha Dillon has to confront the financial consequences of a serious relationship coming to an end. In doing so, she's pushed to her limits.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
Growing Up
From: Emma Miller
Caption: Liz and Jordan, Credit: Emma Miller
Liz and Jordan discuss high school, friendship and getting older.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Mandy's Diary: God is my Guy
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Mandy attends an evangelical Christian church. Every Sunday, she arrives at least an hour early for services, because that’s one of the things you...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:20
Melissa's Diary, Part 2: Raising Issaiah
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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This is Melissa’s second audio diary. Her son Issaiah is now one-year-old. “I’m a really selfish person…I want to be treated as the baby. I want t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
Mental Illness
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011
Caption: Staten Island 2011
I remember going to my first rock show, the Alkaline Trio, I was 12, a tall 12-year-old. I left there a mess. I had been hit in the face, my shir...

Bought by PRX Remix, Vocalo.org, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 3
Coming Out in The Age of Lady Gaga
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011
Caption: Staten Island 2011
Last year a couple of kids at my lunch table were talking smack about gay people. So I got angry and said “what if I’m gay?” I couldn’t believe I ...

Bought by Louisville Public Media, The Story, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 5
Half My Family Is Illegal
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011
Caption: Staten Island 2011
"At some point when I was growing up I admit I was mad at my parents for coming here. I was mad that they had to work so hard, that we had to wait ...

Bought by KDNK, KSFR, KUOW, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 5
The Decisions Project - 22 - Accepting Gay Father
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A teenage girl talks about learning that her father is gay and her subsequent decision to stay with him.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
Singing for the Crowd
From: City High Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sixteen-year-old Tobias Hodges feels insecure when he sings in front of a crowd, but he keeps doing it anyway.

  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 04:04
Stuck
From: Radio Rookies
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Kaddeem Wright enjoys reading philosophy and arguing with his friends about history and politics. With his smarts and innate curiosity about the wo...

Bought by The Story, KUT, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 4
My Mother's Disease
From: Radio Rookies
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17-years-old Vikky Cruz struggles to cope with her mother's illness, a rare genetic disease called neuroacanthytosis, and the ways it's taken over ...

Bought by Vocalo.org and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 2
I Wonder What They're Like
From: WHJE
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Bradley and Nicole are not allowed to know anything about their birth parents until they turn 18 because they are part of a closed adoption.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Swords to Ploughshares
From: Alix Blair
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A veteran of the Iraq war finds peace through farming

Bought by WMMT, The Story, KFAI Minneapolis, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 4
Someone Worth Finding: The Unlikely Journey of John Bruna
From: The Tibet Connection
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A homeless addict becomes a high school teacher...and a monk

  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 13:01
What about Me, Uncle Sam?
From: Radio Rookies
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Every year, American schools graduate roughly 65,000 students who are barred from legal employment because they don't have documentation. Even with...

Bought by Third Coast International Audio Festival


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Silence Like Air
From: Teresa Goff
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Three Indo-Canadian women were attacked, two killed, all by their husbands, over a two-week period in October, 2006. Supreeti Ghosh, Ashley Sandu ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Lessons
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Stories of students at Manchester Central High School, New Hampshire's oldest and most diverse high school

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KUNM, New England Public Media, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8