PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family

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Interracial Dating
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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A personal essay on family and dating

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:16
Mother
From: City High Radio
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A teenager describes what it's like to grow up without a mother

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 03:35
Love treatise
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Cooper Galvin, a high school senior, goes on a quest to find out what love is.

Bought by PRX Remix and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 2
Rock My Foundation
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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A love song to one's hometown

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ultimate Christmas Gift
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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A classic Christmas sentiment

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Bod Mod
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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One girl's view of body modification.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:35
My Brother
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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No matter how many times Allen has screwed up his brother has always stood by him. Now Allen's incarcerated at the Long Creek Youth Development Ce...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
Running from Myself
From: 826NYC
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Louis struggles to reconcile bad choices he's made in the past.

Bought by KUT, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), YouthCast, and WBEZ


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 17:51
  • Purchases: 4
The All-American Cambodian
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Chandra's mother is distant toward her activities, including cheerleading, at high school. Her mom has never watched her cheer. She objects to the ...

Bought by WMPG and YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 17, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Parents and Teens and Rules, Oh My!
From: Littleglobe
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A piece which includes personal narratives, interview, and panel discussion about teens' relationships with parents and parental expectations.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2008
  • Length: 28:31
Melvin is Dead
From: Sally Richardson
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First-person response to a surprising phone message from my brother about my old dog Melvin.

Bought by KUT, Radio Catskill, WYBC, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 4
The Hurricane
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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When I was 13, I lived in Florida with my mother. This is a story about a hurricane we lived through together, and how our lives changed in the aft...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 3
My Dad
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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For the past couple years, my dad has been in and out of jail. This story is about why. And it's about how my father's troubles have affected me.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
A Dinner with Dad
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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I wrote this piece to show a typical night out with my dad.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
Going Back to College
From: Littleglobe
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The influence of my childhood experience with college on my current desire for a degree.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and WQJC


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Ricky, The Banjo, and Me
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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David Barber-Callaghan grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, listening to his parents and their friends play old-time music on sticky summer nights. Thes...

Bought by WMMT, PRX Remix, Troy Public Radio, WMPG, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 10
That's My Song: Thanks A Lot!
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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Leslie Wise reminisces about loving Ernest Tubb's song "Thanks A Lot" as a child, and what it means to her.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Leaving the Mountains
From: Appalachian Media Institute
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Growing up in rural Appalachia Machlyn Blair didn't think he would have much in common with teenagers from other places. But the current immigrat...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WGXC, WMNF, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2006
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 11
Christmas Eve at My House
From: KRCB Voice of Youth
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Three stories of three very different Christmas Eves

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WXLV-FM, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2006
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 3
Growing Up in a Coal Community
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Caption: Natasha Watts interviewing community members., Credit: Rebecca O'Doherty, Youth Radio
Growing up in a coal community, mining is a part of your everyday life. In light of the recent SAGO mine disaster Natasha Watts reflects on what i...

Bought by WGXC, WGBH Radio Boston, WXLV-FM, The Nature Podcast, and PRX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
Son of a Coalminer
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Series: Living with Coal in Eastern Kentucky
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Josh Fleming grew up in a family of miners. In this piece he talks with his father about what being a coal miner has meant to his family and why h...

Bought by WGXC, WEKU, The Nature Podcast, WBEZ, WXLV-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 6
A Gift for Tia, Long Overdue
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A nephew sends an audio gift and remembrance to his tia.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Marissa's Grandma
From: Youth Radio
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Marissa's ode to her Grandma

Bought by KVNF, WGXC, and PRX


  • Added: Dec 20, 2005
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3
Let's Talk About Sex
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Presents: Youth and Sex
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Johanna Greenberg says parents, including her own, are falling down on the job when it comes to "the talk." So she makes the first move.

Bought by KZYX, PRX to iTunes, and YouthCast


  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 3
"I Still Love Him...Oh Well."
From: Curie Youth Radio
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The struggle to accept that your parent didn't put you first.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 12, 2005
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 2