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Mami, Papi, and Me
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: Teen Sanctuaries
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Shayla Torres is a senior at Community Academy in Philadelphia and is going to college next year. But first, she’ll have to leave her grandparents ...

Bought by KSFR and WHYY


  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
The Forest
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sometimes you see more than you expect.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
Dear Father
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by conorwithonen, Flickr
Gabriel Martinez, a seventh grader, wrote this thoughtful and moving letter to his unknown father.

Bought by KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, WSLR, Delta College Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 5
Rootabaga Stories of Carl Sandburg
From: Roy Trumbull
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
Klet
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Living in a new place can be hard. It can also be great!

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:27
Ceci's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:27
Graham's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
Angelo's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:45
Jesus Freak
From: WHJE
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Following the life of a Christian teenager.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
The Mayor of Allston
From: Eleanor Kagan
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To the uninitiated, Mr. Butch was just another homeless man on the streets of Boston. To those living in Allston, however, he was their wayfaring p...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:34
La Boda Mexicana
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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PRODUCIDO EN ESPANOL. Las productoras juveniles Anai Fuentes y Carla Roman describen el proceso de la boda Mexicana entrevistando a sus madres. P...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:27
The Backpack
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by: mL., Flickr
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
Blues Run the Game
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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Buffalo native Jillian Mertz talks about how the songs of Jackson C. Frank, a little known folk musician from her hometown, helped her understand t...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
Prison Doulas-Supporting Pregnant Women Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
The People Could Fly
From: Miles Tokunow
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
The Love I felt for You
From: Littleglobe
Caption: by Rayani Melo from Flickr
Esmerelda Gonzales-Munoz's "The Love I Felt For You" shares with us her story about love. Created during Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensiv...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:20
Read, Read, Read!
From: Learning Matters
Series: Lessons from Haiti: Schools after the earthquake
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
My Dad
From: Littleglobe
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cristina Trevizo's story of love and loss, family-style...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 2
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
OMG: Adults read from their teenage journals, diaries, yearbooks and old love letters.
From: Kinsee Morlan
Series: This Small Town Life
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A Cringe-inspired event where adults read from the embarrassing writings spawned from their juvenile minds.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:18:24
Tattoos are the new lockets
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tattoos have surpassed lockets as a way of keeping memories close.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:06
What is Love?
From: City High Radio
Caption: Legs, Credit: Jessie Birdman
Vox Pop: High school junior Jessie asks people, "What is Love?"

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Up, Getting By: A Radio Rookies Special
From: Radio Rookies
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
Refugees make Alaska their home
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Nithya Thiru tells us about a Catholic Social Services program for refugees who are making Alaska their home.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2009
  • Length: 06:58
Teacher Crush Vox
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A vox full of memories of innocent teacher crushes.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 4