PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family

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An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 31:27
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In this show, you’ll hear from women of all ages, from five to eighty-five. They talk about how they imagine their lives will be, how their lives a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 16:02
  • Purchases: 1
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How fast are kids growing up? Jasmyn Harlan, a senior in high school, asks kids of various ages what they want to be when they grow up. Surprisingl...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:48
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Climbers use the process of kick stepping to carve out an uphill path for people behind them through snowy terrain. This activity requires not only...

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  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Je...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Journalist and MPR host Cathy Wurzer and educator Bruce Kramer embarked on a series of broadcast conversations as Bruce dealt with ALS, about how f...

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 24:03
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Science and medicine was a main passion for Earl Bakken, inventor of the portable pacemaker. As a co-founder of Medtronic he began collecting early...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
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Would you believe that some teens view Valentine's Day as shallow and expensive? Others see it as an opportunity to demonstrate appreciation. Car...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
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A ten-year-old on deep space, death, and Revolutionary War reenactments.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 7
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A personal essay on family and dating

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:16
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Tent Show Radio
New First Night ~ the official kick-off of the Big Top tent season featuring host Michael Perry and Big Top Chautauqua's Blue Canvas Orchestra and ...

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRNC-LP, KALH, WDSE, WUMB and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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If there are bruins in the neighborhood, trouble may be brewin'. Listen and learn how to avoid it.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:45
Caption: UM doctoral student Wylie Carr is part of a research team collecting public opinion on the controversial idea of climate engineering. His travels have taken him to Kenya, the Solomon Islands and the northernmost point in Alaska., Credit: Catherine L. Waters
Wylie Carr studies climate engineering - a 'Plan B' for global warming. The idea terrifies him. Someday, however, his daughter may need to decide w...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
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This Women's Words features Holly Harden reading an excerpt from her cookbook <i>Good Food from Mrs. Sundberg's Kitchen.</i>

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Orphans in Romania., Credit: Mike Carroll for Harvard University
What makes some people able to cope with life's challenges better than others? A growing field of science is peering into the brain to find an answer.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 2
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A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam. This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public reading featuring writers of Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage, Richard...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alex chows down on a Bento box in Kyoto
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 14:29
Caption: Leo Jackson
Every October, over 30 cyclists from the New Orleans area embark on a three-day bike ride to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The “NOLA to Angola”...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:53
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On this episode of Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa, Larry Amik Smallwood talks with host Erik Redix about growing up in the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibw...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 5
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A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:19
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A short narrative riff on the topic of "holding."

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Apartments in San Francisco, Credit:  (wallyg/flickr)
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:13