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- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 1
How do you cope when you find out at the birth - that your baby has Down Syndrome? What are the first steps that you take?
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 04:55
How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
How are modern grandmothers different from their predecessors?
What does grand-parenting looks like in our modern world?
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 05:34
When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:35
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 54:00
How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?
- Added: Jan 14, 2014
- Length: 14:26
From Los Angeles to Chicago, folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld finds Amtrak's Train #4, the Southwest Chief, full of adventure...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 11, 2014
- Length: 08:30
- Purchases: 2
Does anyone ever believe they could actually be… that one in a million? Twice?
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 05:29
Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 05:35
Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:31
Since she was a little girl, Saphira's life has been structured around the limits of Cerebral Palsey. Pushing through physical and emotional pain, ...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
Children's author Luli Gray talks about her new picture book, "Ant and Grasshopper."
- Added: Jun 12, 2011
- Length: 05:00
It is good to have a birth plan. The one problem? The birth of a child can be unpredictable. Radio Producer Katy Sewall brings us the story of on...
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 11:56
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 06:56
Mothers and kitchens.
The food they cooked or didn’t.
The stories they told or couldn’t.
In honor of Mother’s Day we linger in the kitchen.
Bought by KWMR, XRAY.fm, WABE, PRX Remix, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 08:23
- Purchases: 11
Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:41
Last year at a routine check-up, 15-year-old Raymond Henderson decided to tell the truth. When his doctor noticed bruises on his neck, Raymond admi...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 07, 2010
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 3
"The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars" enthralled me as a kid. As an adult, trying to track down a copy of the book took me across the country.
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 15:00
- Purchases: 2
A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 28, 2010
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 3
Bradley and Nicole are not allowed to know anything about their birth parents until they turn 18 because they are part of a closed adoption.
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 05:47
A toy designer talks about what it's like to design toys for children with special needs.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 16:40
- Purchases: 1
