PRX - Pieces for Tone: Sentimental

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Mary Mills talks with her mother, Joyce Carter Mills, about growing up in the 1960s and why all the neighborhood kids wanted to be at their house.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour of stories all about growing up, and learning lessons from family members.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:03
Caption: Bob and Ethan on their Boat
The unlikely, childless Bob Mailloux signs up to be a Big Brother and is changed forever. Mashpee, Massachusetts, September, 2019.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Evan and Sam and Goat, Credit: Vanessa Vassar
Kids explore death and grief on the show with authors, experts, and telling their own experiences

Bought by KCHU, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Father's Day Special to honor all the dads, grandpas, stepdads, and men who make a difference in kids lives

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and WSGE


  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 5
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, grouchy and stingy old man. He is visited by the Christmas ghosts, who give him a chance to change his nasty ways.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 13:33
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4th graders in Austin, Texas discuss what their hopes and dreams mean to them.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:49
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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
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A collaborative piece in which a a group of third graders share how they got their first names. This piece grew out of our participation in the "My...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
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This special Mortified Mixtape to Halloween features three tales of kids obsessed with demons, vampires and ghosts.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 20:30
Caption: Miss Joanne, Credit: Olivia Polischeck
Even after 13 years, Olivia remembers the influence her preschool teacher, Miss Joanne, had on her in Room 1. Wanting to know more about Miss Joann...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
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Generational discussion on the nature of childhood over the ages

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Anni's favorite place growing up was ... the school-bus stop?

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Marcus the Magician teaches a classic trick to one of his students, Credit: Tobin Low
This story is about Paul Marcus Earle, who for many years had a day job in Pathology, but on nights and weekends became Marcus the Magician.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Aggies." The Beat is a...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:49
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
Caption: Mario Study with his service dog, Zen., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
An Ohio program recruits prison inmates to train dogs to work with special needs children.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Balloon Pickers, Credit: MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
In 1922 the poet Carl Sandburg wrote a children's book about an imaginary place called The Rootabaga Country. It was very popular. Its stories rang...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 19:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
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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
Caption: Radio Rookie Sunnie Hwang with Producer Czerina Patel
For the first time, Radio Rookies presents an hour-long special, “Growing Up, Getting By”, hosted by WNYC reporter and Radio Rookies founder Marian...

Bought by KSFR, WHRV, KUT, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Megan used to be afraid of monsters

  • Added: Nov 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:44

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:50
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The youngest kid in kindergarten, Deja stood up for herself one day by bringing up death... a lesson she had learned too young and was struggling t...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:19