PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family
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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 25:27
- Purchases: 2
Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid.
Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 11:46
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
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
Jay Ipson is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 26:41
Comedians Stuart Goldsmith and Tom Price join Olly Mann to discuss their impending fatherhood. Do we need to know about the mucus plug?
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 21:04
More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two weeks later, all but one of them had been shot dead.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 25:28
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
This piece investigates the particular difficulties of struggling with addiction as a mother.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
The women of Spirits Left Behind investigate possible hauntings: strange noises, apparitions, feeling uneasy for no reason at all. (Many of them ar...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall is an autobiographical dark comedy, written and performed by "This American Life" co...
Bought by KHEN-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
A week in the life of a woman in Chicago attempting to escape a physically and emotionally abusive marriage.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 12, 2014
- Length: 23:22
- Purchases: 2
Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:13
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
Two teenage sisters, whose names are withheld to respect their privacy, remember confiding in each other about being sexually abused by their uncle...
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 01:24
Frenchboro is a tiny island off the coast of Maine with 35 year round residents. The Lunt family has fished its waters for over 200 years. This leg...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 07:50
Patricia Kirkpatrick lives in St. Paul and teaches at Hamline University. She's won awards and fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome, Bush, and Wil...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 3
Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 3
Judy and Randy Pilgrim remember their son and Iraq war veteran, Army Specialist Lance Pilgrim.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 01:15
Monsters? Attempted suicide? The "second hand smoke" of insanity? Bob will be the 1st to admit that clinical psychology requires a bit of a split-...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
