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Sanjay Patel was the first South Asian to make a Pixar film, Sanjay’s Super Team, but after 20 years with the studio he was ready for a new adventure.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A 9-year-old girl is sent away from her abusive family to live with an older couple, who try to break through her fear and silence to let some love...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 02:47
With tablets, Legos, and coding, these fourteen teams from library branches across Brooklyn met at Central Library to compete in the final champion...
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 09:23
The painful struggles between parents and children are often a subject of drama, and no surprise, given the plentiful examples of this theme in hum...
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 03:34
Told through the eyes of his twelve-year-old brother, the older boy makes a discovery that allows him to become a beloved symbol of giving througho...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 04:02
Lucas County CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocates – is a non-profit organization of volunteers who work for the juvenile court judges to advoca...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
After two kids and more than ten years of marriage, Jenni and Sarah were lying in bed one night when Sarah shared she was a woman born in a man’s b...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 28:47
This is a true story. Its 1956 and 11 year old Kenny Daniel discovers on televison the King of the Cowboys Roy Rogers. When he writes Roy Rogers a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2022
- Length: 15:57
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 05:14
To newborns, there is no discernable difference between night and day. Evening and morning blur together in this piece as Katie Marquette rocks her...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 26:12
- Purchases: 1
The Special Olympics athlete's oath is, "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." Today we're talking to Sue Hess, an orga...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
We're headed outdoors on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. headed to the park! But not just any park a new inclusive park located in Perrysb...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 06:09
- Purchases: 1
A rich, intimate story of family, childhood memories, and rediscovering old photographs and the stories that connect them.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 16:36
- Purchases: 1
This piece is an emotional account of having a child with Autism.
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KKRN, KGUA, KWMR, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 5
Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 24:52
- Purchases: 1
It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads over to the Promise Neighborhood in St. Cloud on...
- Added: Aug 29, 2020
- Length: 29:09
A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 57:54
The Wizard of Oz started as a perfect partnership between L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow -- until they became bitter rivals, with each owning half ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 12:22
- Purchases: 3
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
Legislators in Maine and across the country debate now bills to limit Reproductive Rights. Their limited or completely absent knowledge of the dep...
- Added: May 25, 2019
- Length: 07:09
Julian chooses his first official essay to read from the submissions choosing an essay that focuses on family. More specifically, mothers and their...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 10:29
The murders of four children at the hands of caretakers were adjudicated by Maine's court system recently. As the last days of a child whose grandf...
- Added: Apr 06, 2019
- Length: 07:17
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
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
4th graders in Austin explore the relationship of art and sports through their own hobbies.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 08:25
