PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family
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Imam Sohaib Sultan and his wife, Arshe Ahmed, came to StoryCorps to talk about becoming parents, and what it means to live “a blessed life.”
Bought by KALW
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 02:48
- Purchases: 1
After Dr. John Fortunato diagnosed Robert Robinson’s daughter, Angel, with a rare kind of cancer, the father and doctor forged a lasting bond.
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 03:20
Nearly two decades after Mike Wolmetz proposed to Debora Brakarz at the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central, they returned to share an update about t...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Retired firefighter John Vigiano, Sr. remembers both sons lost in the World Trade Center on 9/11 – John Vigiano, Jr,. also a firefighter, and Joe V...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 06:15
Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Tr...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 02:57
Avielle Richman was one of the children killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. She was six years old. Her par...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 02:59
Five women over a couple of weeks and in a number of different locations shared their stories of micro-aggressions, sexual assault, abuse, molestat...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 27:05
Russ Darling is a Vietnam Era Veteran who has worn many hats over his life: Poet, Artist, former School Bus driver and most recently, Stone Mason.
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 10:13
Sylvia Grosvold and her father Josh Weiner came back to StoryCorps to reflect on their relationship, just as Sylvia was about to leave for college.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Jennifer Brouwer lost her mother to Pancreatic Cancer in 2001, in wanting to honor her mother’s memory she created the Janet Phleger Foundation, a...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Mar 23, 2020
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 1
10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) represent the interests of children remanded to state custody. Due to the opioid epidemic, CASAs have seen...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Kids from Chicago discuss a heartbreakingly beautiful book set in Maine: "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt. The writer shares the inspiration f...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 23:21
A flash-fiction story told from the perspective of a boy getting his bearings in the grown-up world of funerals.
- Added: May 08, 2016
- Length: 02:01
As a boy I always thought it would be terrifying to be a tree rooted in the ground when developers arrived with backhoes and chainsaws. How you cou...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 27:22
Tom Graziano remembers how his son’s elementary school principal and the community responded when they learned that his son was HIV positive.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU and more
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 7
Sisters from Wisconsin recount what it was like to find out both of their parents had AIDS, and to lose them both to the disease in the early 1990s.
Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 4
Bill Jones, the first single man in California to successfully adopt a child, tells his friend Stu Maddux about his son, Aaron.
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 3
Andre Simms is 45. He’s been shot. Stabbed. Homeless. Arrested. He sold and used drugs. But everything changed when his girlfriend died and he was ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
Elisa Seeger and her husband, Bobby Seeger, Jr. remember their son, Aidan, who died in 2012 from a genetic disorder called adrenoleukodystrophy, or...
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
Jeff Lasater tells his friend Drew Cartwright about his son Jeremiah who, after being bullied at school, committed suicide at 14 years old.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KERA, and KMUD
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 3
Adrienne D'Luna Directo interviews her parents, Debra and Lionel D'Luna, about her sister Alexis who died from complications of CHARGE syndrome in ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
Nicholas Rodriguez joined the Marines because he thought he could make a difference. His service changed Nick–and his family–forever. Nick’s mom &...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
