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Change is Challenging

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

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

Easy, Cheap, and Fast to Make: How to make Spaghetti by Nicolas Pena

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition

Nicolas interviews his dad while making spaghetti, who emphasizes how important it is to know how to cook-especially when you are single, and/or wh...

Playing Against the Odds (5:09)

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

Training to become a professional hockey player doesn't come without a price for this teenager. Will countless hours of practice and perseverance p...

Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2013

Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure: A story about two cousins and a luthier.

Bought by PRX Remix

Drugs: Defying the Influence

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

From the outside, it seemed like Michael had it all - parents who loved him, a supportive brother, an affluent home, and good grades. But, wanting...

American Dream - Minus My Mom

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

Rebelling against your parents is the norm for most teens in America, but for some young people who immigrate to the U.S. without one or both of th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

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

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...

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

Mental Illness

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

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

A Child's View of Domestic Violence by Valencia McMurray of MPR News

From: YouthCast

Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC

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

Stuck

From: Radio Rookies

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

Home Alone

From: Radio Rookies

Krystle loves her mom very much and she feels guilty about how hard her mom has worked to provide a good life for them, but Krystle sometimes wonde...

Bought by The Story, KUT, 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

Money Stress

From: Radio Rookies

Rookie Reporter Erikka Diaz, like many of her neighbors in South Bronx, has lived in poverty her whole life. Her family knows well the anxiety that...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, The Story, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and KUOW

I Wonder What They're Like

From: WHJE

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.

Hines Fellowship excerpt ("How I Met My Husband")

From: David Green

An alumna from the class of '49 tells the story of how she met her future husband.

Growing Up in The System

From: Radio Rookies

WNYC Radio Rookie, Shirley Diaz's life has been shaped by the tragedy of her mother's murder and having been raised in several foster homes. To avo...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, PRX Remix, KUOW, YouthCast and more