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Show #16: Expressing Ourselves
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
Show #13: Voting and Spandex
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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Young people will be crucial to this year?s election, though political activism can take many different forms. Ann Kane talks to youth voters about...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
Interracial Dating
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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A personal essay on family and dating

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:16
VoxPod #5 - Spoiler Alert
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features an essay on the cultural impact of Harry Potter.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
Mother
From: City High Radio
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A teenager describes what it's like to grow up without a mother

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 03:35
Write of Passage
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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I wrote a novel in grade school. Then I threw it away. Childhood gives way to adolescence.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:56
LiveHopeLove
From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KBRP Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 22
Adam
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
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Adam used to want to be just like his father...but not anymore

  • Added: Nov 17, 2008
  • Length: 02:31
Love treatise
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Cooper Galvin, a high school senior, goes on a quest to find out what love is.

Bought by PRX Remix and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Wild Places of Youth
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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A Swim through the waters of childhood.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:50
On the Job
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Two pictures of jobs: from the outside In and in the Imagination

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:45
Everything is Youth Oriented
From: The humble Farmer
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Everything has always been youth oriented

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: :42
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - William Wissemann
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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When solving life's puzzles, William Wissemann believes in breaking things down into smaller pieces.

Bought by WEZU and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 2
He Was in a Coma
From: The humble Farmer
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After 16 weeks in a coma, a young man woke up

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Wrong Moment for Silence
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Not being able to speak up to say the right thing at the right moment: a scene from high school

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:27
The Airlines Would Oppose It
From: The humble Farmer
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Solutions to spending a weekend alone

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Sep 02, 2008
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
From a Thimble to a Teacup (Politics & Me)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Libby was never even remotely interested in politics. But a trip to the New Hampshire primary changed that.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
Addiction
From: Littleglobe
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gabe Rima's poem about addiction with an interview at the end about addiction.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
This I Believe - Brighton Earley
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Los Angeles high school student Brighton Earley believes being flexible is a valuable trait in life.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2
West Wing Moment
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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William's been a political junkie since he was a preteen.

Bought by WMPG, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, and PRX Election Podcast


  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 3
...And I Have No Idea What Happened To Him After That
From: Ryan Scammell
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Life happens to us whether we like it or not

  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 12:47
Baseball - My First Love
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Remembering Remus
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Summer Baseball League in Small Town Michigan

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 08:10
Your Own Anti-Drug
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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An artful PSA for an anti-drug campaign

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:10
For Your Eyes Only
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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Just listen to it, it's short

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:07
Mondo's
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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A portrait of a local Moab coffee shop as a reflection of community

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:26

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