PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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An episode that introduces a character while also saying goodbye to them.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
Justin Murray and his brother Jason spent their childhoods in Florida. They did everything together: fishing, surfing, making their own surfboards....
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 18:42
This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.
Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
We're hanging out in South Toledo on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. You'll meet a few people from Baby U, a non-profit that gives parents...
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 06:02
We're headed back to school on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! Join us as we take a tour of SunBridge Schools in Toledo, OH.
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 06:03
In the wake of tragedy, Susi forms an unexpected bond with the woman who should have been her mother-in-law. It's a modern day version of the bibli...
- Added: Jul 22, 2018
- Length: 20:12
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking about a new festival called Firefly Nights. It's a nonprofit organization dedicated to planning ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
This week we're talking to Wendy Wester. Wendy is a Development Officer at United Way and before we met that's what I thought we were going to talk...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 27:11
The Rough Draft Diaries meets with Ken Leslie of 1Matters. 1Matters is a non-profit that works to return domestic autonomy to those without homes. ...
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 06:33
EVEN WITH THE RISE OF ONLINE DATING WEBSITES AND WAYS TO CONNECT, THERE IS STILL A LARGE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT THEY HAVE YET TO HELP. FROM GLEN BURNIE,...
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 05:16
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 27:06
We have begun a new line of connections on The Rough Draft Diaries with the story of Edith Franklin. Last week began the story of the “The Godmothe...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 06:18
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 53:41
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
An incredible story of a cancer survivor that goes on to do the impossible.
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 34:49
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...
Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 3
What do you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you l...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 40:52
More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two weeks later, all but one of them had been shot dead.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 25:28
- Purchases: 1
Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in r...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 25:13
- Purchases: 1