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An anthropology professor makes unexpected discoveries about his profession and himself when his second child is born with Down Syndrome.
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 52:48
On this episode of Audacious, meet a young DJ who stands up against bullying, a 14-year-old who cleans up litter, and a child who made a memorial s...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 50:00
On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the statio...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 36:50
A former Chicago gang member enters rival territory to ask for peace.
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In today’s episode of The Apple Seed, you’ll hear an account of the ancient tale of the last Zapotec king. And on the lighter side, you’ll hear Don...
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 2
How are the youth of color impacted by the juvenile justice system in this country? To find answers to questions like this, we at Generation Justi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 55:43
Ellen Hughes speaks with Keith Miller, the hospital safety officer who helped her son when he had a violent reaction to a medication.
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 02:34
The most helpful toddlers show empathy when they’re infants.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTIP, and KENW
- Added: Oct 06, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 5
We talk with Sarah Zaske about what the Germans can teach us about raising kids. Her book is Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Rai...
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Efforts to date are falling far short of achieving the greenhouse gas reduction needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. Bioethicist Travis...
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Jen Turner had always wanted to be a mom. But when she developed macular edema, an eye disease, doctors warned her that pregnancy could result in p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
Megan is excited to go on her class field trip to the county courthouse. But while she's there, she finds something that she's tried hard to keep s...
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 05:39
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
An early intervention for autism shows promise for helping babies who have not yet been diagnosed with the condition.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 19, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 05:35
For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories. Rebecca Greenberg came to StoryCorps with her mother, Laura, to hear abou...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 2
Cindi Swingen chose to take on parenthood by herself. Her two children have the same father — a man none them know who donated sperm at a local cli...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 16:40
- Purchases: 1
Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
Liza Long talks to her son about his experiences living with mental illness.
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 2
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In her essay, "Gifts," Finch shares the story of one of...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:39
From: Tennessee News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Are you mom enough? That's the question being posed to mothers across Tennessee and the nation this week by a controversial TIME...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 02:08
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 14:16
- Purchases: 2
