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Small Fists

From: Ryan Trauman

A flash-fiction story told from the perspective of a boy getting his bearings in the grown-up world of funerals.

Added: May 08, 2016
Length: 02:01

StoryCorps: Catherine Alaniz-Simonds and David Taylor

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Catherine Alaniz-Simonds and retired Col. David Taylor remember Catherine’s husband, Andy Alaniz, who died by friendly fire during the Gulf War.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Apr 19, 2016
Length: 01:50
Purchases: 1

Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

As a boy I always thought it would be terrifying to be a tree rooted in the ground when developers arrived with backhoes and chainsaws. How you cou...

Added: Apr 08, 2016
Length: 27:22

StoryCorps: Sean Smith and Lee Smith

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

In June 1989, Sean Smith, 10, fatally shot his younger sister while playing with his father’s gun. He talks to his mother, Lee, about that devastat...

Bought by WEZU

Added: Mar 25, 2016
Length: 03:53
Purchases: 1

People With Depression: You Are Not Alone

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

Welcome to RadioActive's second podcast of summer 2015. We are talking about depression. We got some advice from a psychiatrist at the University o...

Added: Dec 30, 2015
Length: 14:40

StoryCorps: Paul Nilsen and Tom Graziano

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Paul Nilsen (L) and Tom Graziano (R)

Tom Graziano remembers how his son’s elementary school principal and the community responded when they learned that his son was HIV positive.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU and more

Added: Dec 04, 2015
Length: 02:26
Purchases: 7

StoryCorps OutLoud: Claudia Anton and Diana Keough

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Claudia Anton (L) and Diana Keough (R)

Sisters from Wisconsin recount what it was like to find out both of their parents had AIDS, and to lose them both to the disease in the early 1990s.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU

Added: Nov 30, 2015
Length: 02:24
Purchases: 4

An African-American poet's tribute...

From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: NOVEMBER, 2015

...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...

Added: Nov 19, 2015
Length: 01:40

StoryCorps: Teresa Valko

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Teresa Valko remembers what it was like to see her mother’s memory deteriorate from Alzheimer’s, and to undergo her own genetic testing.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU

Added: Nov 13, 2015
Length: 02:14
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps: Barry Romo

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Bill Branson (L) and Barry Romo (R)

Veteran Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo were born a month apart and grew up together. They both went to Vietnam, only one came home.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU

Added: Nov 06, 2015
Length: 02:16
Purchases: 5

StoryCorps 9/11: Isaac Feliciano

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Isaac Feliciano, a longtime worker at Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, remembers being at his job on September 11, 2001, when his wife, Ros...

Bought by WTIP

Added: Sep 11, 2015
Length: 02:39
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps MVI: Donna Orolin

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Donna Orolin remembers the disappearance of her husband, Private First Class Brian Orolin, and the day he came home from Afghanistan.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and WTJU

Added: Sep 08, 2015
Length: 02:26
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps: Tyra Treadway and Ardyn Treadway

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Tyra Treadway (L) and Ardyn Treadway

Tyra Treadway and her daughter, Ardyn, remember their husband and father, Dr. James Kent Treadway, a beloved pediatrician in New Orleans. Dr. Tread...

Added: Aug 25, 2015
Length: 01:06

A Good Mom

From: City High Radio

Ceyela, age seventeen, struggles to understand how her mom's mental illness has affected their relationship.

Added: May 30, 2015
Length: 10:00

Interview with Taya Kyle

From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour

Widow of highly decorated Navy Seal Chris Kyle unveils her husband's amazing story of service.

Added: May 13, 2015
Length: 16:12

Hurt

From: City High Radio

High school freshmen Jasmine and Emily ask their classmates what they think of kids who cut or harm themselves intentionally. Why do people self ha...

Added: Mar 05, 2015
Length: 04:05

StoryCorps: Bill Jones and Stu Maddux

From: StoryCorps

Bill Jones, the first single man in California to successfully adopt a child, tells his friend Stu Maddux about his son, Aaron.

Bought by KRVS, WEZU, and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 20, 2015
Length: 02:58
Purchases: 3

High School Play Challenges A Family To Forgive

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

Caption: Trent Selland played death row inmate Matthew Poncelet in Bishop Blanchet High School's production of "Dead Man Walking."

Darlene Selland still remembers the day she found out. The knock, being told to sit down. Her niece Tiffany had been murdered. For a long time, she...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jan 15, 2015
Length: 05:58
Purchases: 1

Claudia Emerson: Past American Voice

From: New Letters on the Air

We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...

Bought by WABE and WNJR

Added: Dec 31, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Memoirist Cheryl Strayed

From: New Letters on the Air

Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU