PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family

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The Comeback
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Shaun Waters tells his story of fighting his way back to a normal life after a life-threatening brain infection.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:40
  • Purchases: 1
Once Is Lost
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Barbara Harrison puts her rocky relationship with her father aside to help him deal with Alzheimer's.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Democratic U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, talks about depleted uranium used by the U.S. military to
From: Hawaii Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Democratic U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, talks about depleted uranium used by the U.S. military to encase armor and ammunition. McDermott believ...

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Teen Marriage
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Proposals at prom? You betcha. Hellen Fleming reports.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, YouthCast, WXLV-FM, PRX, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: May 23, 2005
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 6
Holding Your Breath
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Micheal Geary has cancer. It could be getting worse. What do you tell the kids?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
We see it all: life through the eyes of a photo developer
From: Aaron Henkin
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A photo lab technician ponders our life as he sees it every day, through thousands of personal snapshots

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Audible, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 10, 2004
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 3
The Problem with Thomas
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two young parents discover that their first child is autistic.

Bought by Audible and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 12:26
  • Purchases: 2
Singing Sanitation Worker
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
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On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a sanitation worker sings his way through a very lat...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, PRX Remix, WEKU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 21
Alcoholic at Birth
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Incarcerated youth producer, Zack, interviews his sister and grandmother to gain some insight on his own life and the life of his alcoholic mother.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
The life of mushing
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Jim guides us through his personel journey, into a world few of us will ever know.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:09
Alaskan Native Culture
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Raymomd claims his birthright and shares his personal journey and native history.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:40
Health Insurance Dilemma
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A young mother weighs the costs of buying health insurance against the risks of living without it.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 4
The Fair
From: Jason Rayles
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The fair is bright and nice and happy, and then the sun goes down....

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, WNIJ, WBEZ, WZBC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2004
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 7
My Father's Songs
From: Carl Hammerschlag
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dr. H. is reminded about the songs of his tribe while practicing songs with his grandson.

Bought by WGDR and WCOM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Profile of Sgt. Jim Johnson
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Spencer Scott interviews Sargeant Jim Johnson of the Maine National Guard as he departs for eighteen months in Iraq.

Bought by WXLV-FM, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 3
Joey's Phone Call Home
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Joey, an incarcerated teen, calls home.

Bought by The Story, Remix Radio, WYBC, YouthCast, Space Gallery and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2004
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 6
Healthy Babies
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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The van that's keeping babies healthy one mother at a time.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUHB and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2003
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 7
Trading One Tongue for the Other
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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A young Filipino-American's poem on growing up in many languages.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMNF, KUOW, YouthCast, KUCB and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2003
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 6
Dia's Diary: My Mother
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A transgender woman tells how she came out to her mother

Bought by KRZA, KUOW, Vocalo.org, KGLT, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2003
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 8

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