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Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:57
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 05:12
A personal narrative about a traumatizing experience I had in elementary school in Egypt.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 05:22
A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Oct 10, 2012
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
When you visit the West African nation of Togo, you're likely to hear the "yovo song" -- a song chanted by many Togolese youth that goes: "White pe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
High school isn't easy. Jimmy's high school experience was especially difficult. Now a student at the United World College in Montezuma, NM, Jimmy ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:33
Taking his inspiration from Marvin Gaye's song "What's Going On," Ryan Lawless, SFCC student, explores family dynamics in the 21st century while re...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 05:53
An impressionable high school student witnesses a small act of grace on the basketball court involving the legendary college basketball coach John ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 21:14
Radio 101 student Denita Wade remembers her father, a man she did not know very well.
- Added: Sep 19, 2011
- Length: 04:19
Just as Sam is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole cab driving thing, he becomes ensnared in the nefarious clutches of 31st S...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 08:35
This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Homo sapien, human being. Homo mustus, human doing. How much of my life is defined by my doing rather than my being?
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:31
I know my mother and my children, literally, from the inside out.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:20
On May Day, the first day of summer in the Celtic calendar, I celebrate the music of Turlough O'Carolan, the last great Irish composer and harpist.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 06:02
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 3
Lisa Brandom, Rich Adams, and Lynn Ramage Shafer share about the transition to new perceptions: of God, of familiar places, and of humiliation. Sou...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:26
Sleeping in a cave along Australia's West coast, I could hear, but not join, an ancient corroboree.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:28
What catalyzes change in my life? Although fear and pain top the list, only inspiration is a sustainable fuel.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:36
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 03:24
This piece looks at what it means to be transgender through a profile piece, and also explores transgender health disparities through the frame of ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
