PRX - Pieces for Topic: Senior
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As time goes on, the younger generations forget what it's like to live in moments of the past. Each of these moments in time are experienced and r...
- Added: Feb 13, 2023
- Length: 22:56
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 05:23
Bobby speaks with "Papa" about life and loyalties 60 miles north of New York City, in what some have labeled the “armpit of Connecticut”. A place t...
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:25:02
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 04:42
City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
Bought by American Voices
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
Now that her kids are grown up, it's not them keeping Jane up at night—it's her father.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 1
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 3
This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:38
"What do you think of when you think of your dad?"
People in Seattle share stories about their fathers. Death, divorce, drugs, love, Casey Kasem...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 02, 2008
- Length: 02:27
An hour-long special about starting over late in life.
Bought by KUNM, WSKG, PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, WSKG and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2007
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 13
An update of the Long Haul Production's series "Mom's Good Move."
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Jan 09, 2006
- Length: 10:52
- Purchases: 1
Peg Collison documents her move from San Mateo, California - where she'd lived for almost 35 years - to a retirement community in Davis, California...
Bought by WCBU and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 37:09
- Purchases: 2