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Generational Gene

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: My Body Odyssey

Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...

Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 12

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour

Two stories about coexistence.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 9

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour

Three pieces about immigration in the American West.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Caring for Aging Adults

From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials

More than 1 in 5 American adults is a caregiver for an elder -- usually a parent or grandparent or spouse. How to look after our surging older popu...

Bought by WUWM, WAMU, WVBI-LP, Morehead State Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

That isn't a lake

From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories

When Jerry saw the picture of his home submerged in floodwater, he couldn't believe his eyes.

Bought by WOUB

Still Here: Caregiving and Dementia

From: Safe Space Radio

This hour-long special is about the unspoken challenges of caring for a family member with dementia. The show explores the experience of ambiguous ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WFAE and more

Allusionist 15: Step Away

From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist

'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...

Bought by PRX Remix

East to West

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

A proposed east-west highway across the state of Maine has been on the minds of legislators since it was included in the original proposal for the ...

From This Point On

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...

Bought by KVNF

Chapter 7 - Getting Religion on the East Side

From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York

Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...

Randy’s Diary: Remembering Ozell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries

While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, 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

Neither Here Nor There: Bhutanese Refugees in the U.S.

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from Bhutan are coming to North America. Correspondent Adelaide Chen takes us on a journey with these new arr...

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...