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For older Americans, social isolation is a public health crisis. As we age, our relationships evolve and our communities change — how do we accept ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
Making sense of my father and our estranged relationship with the music he left me.
- Added: Feb 26, 2021
- Length: 04:43
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
Join with us for an hour of great stories in celebration of fathers. You’ll hear from storytellers Willy Claflin, Martha Reed Johnson, Michael McCa...
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 54:59
Leonard Slatkin on Schoenberg.
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 06:30
An hour of stories all about growing up, and learning lessons from family members.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 57:03
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
4th graders in Austin, Texas discuss what their hopes and dreams mean to them.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 02:49
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Nico, a 4th grade student in Austin, brings some of her Romanian heritage through her grandmother's charms.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 01:58
In episode 13 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, it’s Melanie’s turn to take you to Small Syria. To sit by the pool with a group of Syrian w...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 05:41
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 5
This was the winning story on the night of June 4th, 2013. The theme of the evening was "Famous Last Words." It took place at the Alvar Library in ...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 05:30
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
Anni's favorite place growing up was ... the school-bus stop?
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:16
When all you need is someone to answer the phone
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: :54
Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
A fire truck in the driveway, 20 at the table for meals and buying by the dozens (the better for sharing) my father believed in being Santa Claus y...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
Bought by American Voices
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior ye...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
This week's show is all about the powerful pull of memories. Stories by Tina Bodiak, Sara Etkin-Baker, and Janet Smith Post. True stories told by t...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 29:00
From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 2
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Elk visit the ranch. Jessie and Pops sneak in for a close look.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 03:23