PRX - Pieces for Topic: Senior
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The scene could be a bleak one — a hospital room, a patient near death, and no family or loved ones present during their final moments. But David W...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
As a boy I always thought it would be terrifying to be a tree rooted in the ground when developers arrived with backhoes and chainsaws. How you cou...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 27:22
Teresa Valko remembers what it was like to see her mother’s memory deteriorate from Alzheimer’s, and to undergo her own genetic testing.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 02:14
- Purchases: 4
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Dennis Hale tells his wife, Barbara, about being the sole survivor of the Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck on Lake Huron in 1966.
Bought by WEZU, KMUD, WTJU, and Radio Newark
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 54:59
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Betsy Brooks tells her boyfriend, John Grecsek, about her father.
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 09, 2006
- Length: 10:52
- Purchases: 1
Songwriter Dave Alvin describes his song "Man in the Bed" which tells the story of the last day of his father's life.
Bought by KZYX, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, Hearing Voices and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2005
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 8
