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Hour 2: Disability during the pandemic and Two stories of Surviving Trauma

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files

(A compilation of Episodes 3 and 4 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.) First half: Youth with disabilities had great challenges with onlin...

Bought by Prairie Public

Borders Between Us

From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials

Caption: Aminata Tejan-Thomas, Saidu Tejan-Thomas and Saidu Tejan-Thomas, Jr., Credit: courtesy of Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr

Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...

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

131: Please Read My Livejournal!

From: The Mortified Podcast

Current Mood: Desperate. Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of goin...

The Jam

From: Jerome Whittingham
Series: Moved - personal stories of artistic experiences.

Gary, now in his 50s, recalls how Paul Weller and The Jam impacted upon his younger years.

Recher Theatre's Impact on Something More

From: Nate Swartz

Caption: Recher Theatre's front advertising the last live performance.

This documentary covers Recher Theatre's format change and an interview of Chad Nunnally, the bassist of Something More, a local pop punk band from...

Gratitude Across Borders

From: ZUMIX Radio
Series: Radio Across Borders

A Thanksgiving radio show created by English Language Learning students at East Boston High School.

Teen Mom Reality

From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles

When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

American Heaven

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012

18-year-old Radio Rookie Reporter, Danielle came from the Congo when she was 13 years old, leaving her mother and the life that she knew behind in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix

Melissa's Diary, Part 2: Raising Issaiah

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries

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

One Step at a Time: Handling Loss

From: Open Orchard Productions

How does a teenage boy handle loss? David must face his father's impending death from lung cancer while also maintaining his studies and athletics.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Starving for Perfection

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions

Listening to Chloe (a 16 year old) play the violin is listening to an inspired, emotional, and technical artist. But Chloe doesn’t agree. Focused...

22nd of July

From: George Drake, Jr.

Caption: New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London

The day that changed Norway forever.

Bought by KUT and KFAI Minneapolis

Nothing's Ever Permanent in Foster Care

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011

When I first went into foster care, I just felt lost. My friends kept saying, “Yo, you’re changing. You’re acting like you’re depressed.” I used...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix

Half My Family Is Illegal

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 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

Rob Robinson and Beverly Corbin

From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1

Caption: Young man walking in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo

Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...

Bought by PRX Remix

Blues Run the Game

From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York

Buffalo native Jillian Mertz talks about how the songs of Jackson C. Frank, a little known folk musician from her hometown, helped her understand t...

Eric's Story

From: Chelsea D

A 20-year-old college student who has spent most of his life in foster care recalls his experiences.

Someone to Tuck Me In

From: Radio Rookies

Last year at a routine check-up, 15-year-old Raymond Henderson decided to tell the truth. When his doctor noticed bruises on his neck, Raymond admi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW

My Mother's Disease

From: Radio Rookies

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

Mexico Mission Trip

From: Bjorn Bagnall

Caption: Adam Hale building a shelter for families in Mexico, Credit: Megan Gray

Adam Hale shares his story over his Mission Trip to Mexico.

Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War

From: Searsport Speeper

Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

A Horse Named "Buckwheat"

From: Rogi Riverstone

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...