PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family
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We place some focus on some stories that are inspired by famous literature.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 58:02
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 56:19
- Purchases: 1
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 30:42
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop spea...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 10:48
Sylvia Grosvold was 5 and half years old when she lost her mother to suicide. A decade later, she came to StoryCorps with her dad Josh Weiner to ta...
- Added: Dec 13, 2019
- Length: 02:43
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 03:01
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
Pedro Lopez remembers the day his mother was detained and deported in the largest single-site, single-day immigration raid in U.S. history.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHRV, and WOUB
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 4
Aden Batar speaks with his son Jamal Batar about fleeing civil war and being among the first Somali refugee families to resettle in Utah.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 02:13
New research on how providing incentives for doctors in the developing world might help more women survive childbirth.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 22, 2019
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
Siblings Abe and Esther Schuster talk about what it was like to grow up as children of Holocaust survivors.
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 02:56
Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: 02:49
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
This is a story about Santa Rick Rosenthal of Atlanta, Georgia -- who also happens to be Jewish (Modern Orthodox, to be precise).
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 02:20
A mom and veterinarian politely asks Santa not to bring her children the item that tops their Christmas lists: a puppy. With love and detail, Dr. ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:00
It’s that time of year again, when film lovers spend their days off from work and school with family and friends as the holidays kick into full ge...
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 51:22
A series of random events in Nepal bring an Israeli reporter and a nepalese teenager to grow an unlikely bond.
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 23:57
Within the first days of the First Lebanon War, two families become unfortunately intertwined through the coincidence of their name.
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 29:26
In 2017, Heather Heyer was killed while protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her supervisor from the law offi...
- Added: Sep 20, 2018
- Length: 02:32
Percy White III tells his friend Terry Wright about his family’s time as sharecroppers on a Virginia farm.
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Aug 06, 2018
- Length: 02:40
- 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
Tim Wardle talks paranoia, non-coincidences, and existential crises.
- Added: Jul 05, 2018
- Length: 18:41
