PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family
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A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A man wants his wife of 25 years to renew their lapsed intimacy, but she resists opening the wounds.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two brothers sort through the attic after their mother's death, coming into contact with memories through the Christmas wrappings she preserved.
Bought by WKSU
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A single parent reassures her small child there's no shame in being illegitimate -- but the child is asking something entirely different.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A teenager whose parents are divorcing sees that she has become a pawn of negotiation, in competition with the family dog.
Bought by WQJC and East Village Radio
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 2
A suicidal youth dials the wrong number for the crisis help-line and gets Sam.
Bought by WQJC
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
Mom finally allows her child to go out and play in the mud if he promises to keep clean.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
He couldn't be with his dying lover because he wasn't family. "What does it take to be family?"
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A harried father tries to coach his small child to open a locked bathroom door.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A grown daughter rages at the immaturity of the parents who abandoned her but is chastised by the grandmother who raised her.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Mother and daughter quarrel over the writing of the obligatory "thank you note," while Dad tunes out.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A woman is stuck in the attic and sends a note down on the cat's collar, hoping to be rescued by her sleeping husband -- who misinterprets it in a ...
Bought by WQJC
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
Dad proudly teaches his small child to read "walk" and "don't walk", then crosses against the light.
Bought by KISU
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A middle-aged divorcee going out on a date is grilled like a teenager by her elderly father.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
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
Two elderly sisters, who are not twins, dress exactly the same, eat all the same food, and go everywhere together.
Bought by WJCT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more
- Added: Nov 05, 2003
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 9