PRX - Pieces for Topic: Children
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An American expatriate and his British colleague work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution.
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 17
Dezmond Floyd speaks with his mother Tanai Benard-Turner about the effect of active shooter drills and mass shootings in schools, following the eve...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Maybe you've heard the fairytale "Snow White and Rose Red", well on this episode of The Apple Seed, just for fun we'll bring you a fractured fairyt...
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KTXK
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 5
“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 33:47
- Purchases: 1
In 2018, Michelle Huston came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Lauren Magaña, to talk about her life’s calling to take care of the dying, and how i...
- Added: Oct 22, 2020
- Length: 03:05
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
The people of Athens are terrorised by a ferocious beast, a hideous creature, half-man, and half-bull, called the Minotaur. But one brave hero rise...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 10:15
- Purchases: 1
Lan Cao lived through some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War before starting her life over in the United States. She tells her daughter w...
- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
The idea of what it means to be human is changing. With countless catastrophic events looming, from climate instability to biotechnology and wars o...
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:01
A complex and touching episode featuring two stories about teenagers who kept diaries while inside a mental health hospital — with entries ranging ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 32:15
A woman speaks with one of the men who saved her life on Christmas Eve 1956, after her mother jumped with her off a bridge and into the river below.
Bought by WGUC/ WVXU
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid.
Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 11:46
On the streets, Danny compares himself to an animal in the wild that is in constant danger. Growing up around gangbangers, it felt natural for him ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:49
A flash-fiction story told from the perspective of a boy getting his bearings in the grown-up world of funerals.
- Added: May 08, 2016
- Length: 02:01
This piece investigates the particular difficulties of struggling with addiction as a mother.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
Nine year old Gary Hayman ran away from a Rhode Island mental hospital in 1952 and sparked the biggest manhunt in state history.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:13
Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
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
Two teenage sisters, whose names are withheld to respect their privacy, remember confiding in each other about being sexually abused by their uncle...
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
George Gittoes, a middle-aged painter, stands in his studio. Looking down on him, with her eyes filled with hatred, is his painting of a Rwandan wo...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 02:18
This kickoff show is steeped in Southern heat as the writers take us back to childhood summers. Sarah Mattingly takes a vacation to meet family, Sa...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Encounter strange characters with Ann Bittick, Mary Beck, and Sheila Keever. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 28:58
