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Making Seattle Beats Since He Was 8 Years Old
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Upendo Moore makes beats. , Credit: Courtesy of Upendo Moore
Most young people don’t know what they want to do with their lives. This is a story about a high school student who was born into a calling – being...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Green Fashion Designers
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
Caption: Aarti with a dress by Chrissy Wai-Ching
In Seattle, some in the fashion industry are going green. Aarti Chandorkar finds out how two young designers - Chrissy Wai-Ching and Renee Corrick ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KLCC


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 2
A City Park With a Purpose
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
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Molly Freed learned there was a new park going up in her neighborhood, West Seattle. When she investigated, she learned the park was going to be bu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Young Seattleites Feel Limited By Lack Of All-Ages Live Music
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Barriers keep people under 21 out of many areas at the Capitol Hill Block Party. , Credit: KUOW Photo/Noah Phillips Reardon
Music festivals all around the country are great places to hear live music. However, not everyone can enjoy the music. Many of the stages have an a...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:22
Kathleen’s Encore: Former Opera Singer Says 'Having It All Is Highly Overrated'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
Episode 2: How To Do Science: Eat Lunch and Drink Coffee
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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Two professors walk up to a lunch truck, and the conversation they have there may change the way we study microbiology. Sometimes science has a lot...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
Episode 1: The World's Tiniest Diving Board
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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When you were a child, your parents might have measured you against a doorpost or chart every birthday, to mark how rapidly you were growing. Perha...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
Homelessness: It Could Happen to Anyone, Even My Dad
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Iris and her dad, Robert
When Blunt member Iris SanGiovanni was eight years old, her dad became homeless for six months after her parents divorced. A few years later, she h...

Bought by KZYX, WSLR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSFR, WMPG and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 10
A Softer Voice
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Hillary's been playing music all her life and her gender never seemed to matter. But when she began composing things got more complicated.

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 6
Bus Basics
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Too young to get her license, Libby was forced to bum rides off people in order to get around - at least until she decided to bite the bullet and s...

Bought by WMPG, Remix Radio, KOOP, Space Gallery, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 28, 2007
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 5
And One Day Your Grandma Will Forgive You...
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lena was born and lived to tell the tale...barely.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
A Prohibition
From: Terin Mayer
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Three students reflect on what it means to be "Black" at Carleton College

Bought by WTIP, KRZA, KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 13
Thrift Town
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Youth Radio’s Lauryn Silverman spends her shopping days wandering the aisles of Thrift Town, where she can express herself in a unique way.

Bought by KSFR, WXLV-FM, and YouthCast


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 3
First Moment of Freedom
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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LaShanda, a youth producer incarcerated at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine, interviews her fellow inmates about th...

Bought by Remix Radio and YouthCast


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2