PRX - Pieces for Topic: Senior
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Perseverance - Over the last 40 years, Chuck McDermott has left his musical mark on audiences on both coasts of the United States. Over the last fe...
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 03:28
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:58
No one disputes that it’s against the law to take another person’s life, but is it against the law to sit with someone and watch while they commit ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 23:46
Hair loss is taboo and the measures people take to replace hair are rarely mentioned out loud, but for Richard Theodore on Cape Cod, hair replaceme...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 3
North Beach Citizens is a community-driven, non-profit organization located in San Francisco, California, that addresses the needs of local homeles...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 02:39
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.
Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
The Falmouth, Massachusetts, Senior Center poetry group hosted a public event to read their work. But it turned out to be less about sharing their ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 2
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:52
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 16:26
With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
A former makeup artists to presidents and network anchors, Lillian Brown describes her career in getting public figures ready for their closeups.
- Added: Oct 12, 2010
- Length: 54:00
As Barack Obama accepted the nomination for President of the United States, he said that "Change...cannot happen without a new spirit of service, a...
Bought by Prairie Public, KLCC, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 05, 2008
- Length: 06:39
- Purchases: 3
Meet "The Pioneers", the first senior citizen group to participate in Odyssey of the Mind.
Bought by WYSO
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 1
Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Jun 19, 2004
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 1
