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Paying For Camp
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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A story about one very special summer camp, and how difficulties with fundraising could cause problems in the near future.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
VoxPod #5 - Spoiler Alert
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features an essay on the cultural impact of Harry Potter.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Purple Heart
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
Here I Go Again
From: City High Radio
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Corinna, 16, got into so much trouble that her parents told her she needed to pack her bags. So she did.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2014
  • Length: 05:36
The First Dress
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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It can take your breath away.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:36
Dad at the Bus Stop
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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Anni's favorite place growing up was ... the school-bus stop?

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:16
Teen Mom Reality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
Repaying Karmic Debt
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: Jonathan Brown
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
StoryCorps: Dan Miller and Celeste Januszewski
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dan Miller tells his wife, Celeste Januszewski, about his relationship with his father.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 117: Season 7 Finale and Top Stories of the Year
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Grand Prize Winner Angela Gattin
This week it's our Season 7 Finale Show, featuring our Top Stories of the Year. In a 1-hour show or in two parts. True stories told by the Southern...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Tales from the South 083: Innocence Lost
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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This week, our stories are all about turning points, as our writers move from innocence to knowledge, their lives forever changed. Stories by Sarah...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Tales from the South 082: Winners of Arkansas Literary Festival Contest
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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Here they are, the winners of annual Telling Tales Contest, in conjunction with the Arkansas Literary Festival. Stories by Eric Van Meter, Sarah Mi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
School Nurse Layoffs Endanger Students' Safety
From: On Blast
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Apparently, students' safety is the latest casualty of Governor Corbett's education budget cuts.

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
Tales from the South 081: 6th Annual Mothers Show
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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This week it's our 6th Annual Mothers Show, celebrating the awesome power of motherhood. Stories by May Griebel, Jan Hamlett, and Mike Noland. All ...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
I Don't Call Her Mom
From: City High Radio
Caption: my mom--one of the only photos I have
Fifteen-year-old Ashley hasn't seen her mom in a long time.

  • Added: May 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:20
Tales from the South 48: Through the Eyes of a Child
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
Caption: Montgomery Trucking playing at Tales
True stories by Southerners in front of a live audience. This week's stories show us the innocence, imagination, and skewed logic of a child's mind...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A child's view of domestic violence
From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series
Caption: Valencia McMurray (left) interviews her mother about the attack that nearly took her life when Valencia was 6., Credit: Sasha Aslanian
Valencia McMurray revisits an incident that happened in her family when she was six and has kept a hold on her family 14 years later.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and YouthCast


  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 4
Tales from the South 025
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Our Ups and Downs
From: WHJE
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Growing up with and raising a family member with Down Syndrome.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Lindsay Ordower - "The Go Getter"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:41
Someone to Tuck Me In
From: Radio Rookies
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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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 3
Remember by Tasha Viets-VanLear
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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A finalist in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam, Tasha Viets-VanLear is a junior at Northside College Prep in Chicago. She says "Rememb...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
Anchorage Youth Court
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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There are a group of teenagers in Anchorage trying to help other teens stay out of the court system

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
Short List #4
From: David Green
Series: Short Lists
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A collaborative “Short List” poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by WTIP, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and KRUA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 5
I Wonder What They're Like
From: WHJE
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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.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 05:47