PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family

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Many rites of passage are a source of much joy and anticipation, but some – such as the one Tanya Huyard observed at Jerusalem’s “pacifier tree” –...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:14
Caption: A Sniagrab sale, from above, Credit: The Gart Family Archive
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
Caption: The Beloved Community Village at its new home, Credit: Rae Solomon
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
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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
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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
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She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.

Bought by North State Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 14:29
  • Purchases: 1
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When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 10:06
Caption: Manohar and Vera, Credit: Kathryn Munger
Manohar, from Agra, and Vera, from Sao Paulo, meet on a mysterious bus when a lady falls on M. The rest is slight distrust and love.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Newly born, Max Ferrer, with his parents Nicole and Sean, Credit: Katy Sewall
When it comes to giving birth in America, less than 1% of couples choose a "natural birth;" that is a birth with no drugs - and little to no medica...

  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 17:14
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Sealed explores divorce and its lingering effects. Nearly two decades after their parents’ separation, four siblings reflect on its aftermath.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 22:22
  • Purchases: 1
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The title says it all...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 14:37
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A single mother and her two teenage daughters tell the harrowing story of the girls' descent into an underworld of drugs and homelessness.

Bought by PRX Remix and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 34:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Four bereaved mothers who first came together to share the pain and the tragic loss of their children tell the story of the 25 year-old organizatio...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 34:09
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The story of a new comer to Athens, Greece, and what she finds in her life there.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:39
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Will gay people reinvent the institution of marriage, or will the institution reinvent gay relationships?

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KSFR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
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The eX Files ? stories of gay divorce.

Bought by WCPN, KUT-HD, KQED, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: the producer with her parents
A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote ...

Bought by KUER, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, WYBC, KCUR, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10