PRX - Pieces for Topic: Youth

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

100 results


Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcasters Carys and Andrew
Transgender people face many obstacles in life. One of the most pressing is the difficulty they can find in getting appropriate healthcare. In th...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Carys and Andrew
Transgender people face many obstacles in life. One of the most pressing is the difficulty they can find in getting appropriate healthcare. In th...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: People hanging out on Parliament Hill during the heatwave, Credit: Joe Bond
During a record-breaking heatwave, couples and friends go to Parliament Hill in London to enjoy the view of the city and St Pauls Cathedral (a view...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 17:30
Caption: Teens Take Charge press officers Ayana Smith and Sophie Mode at a press conference on May 17, 2019., Credit: Teens Take Charge Instagram
New York City has been trying to improve diversity in its schools for years. But lawmakers, parents, teachers and students disagree about how to do...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 26:40
Caption: The Clarys on the front porch of their home in Blackwell., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
The pitfalls of teenagers and tiaras.  This week, Mortified explores the obsession kids have with becoming a princess. The Mortified Podcast is a p...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2018
  • Length: 27:45
Piece image
Current Mood: Desperate.  Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of goin...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
Piece image
Just like a real-life Zach Morris, a teenager in the 90's writes his own episode of Saved By The Bell and tries to get it on the air.  Listen to th...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2018
  • Length: 20:07
Piece image
Small town boy heads to make it big in Nashville.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
Piece image
Find out why you should never mess with Maria. The diaries of a rebellious Jersey Girl growing up in the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud memb...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 25:08
Piece image
From Punk to Metal to Debbie Gibson... an ode to teens who scribbled lyrics in notebooks, learned the guitar and asked their friends to join their ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
Caption: Coach Dani Allen
Developmentally disabled kids play right along with their typically developing peers on this new basketball team, started by their former Special E...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:39
Piece image
In this episode, we hear from Amahl Bishara about her work with Aida refugee camp, the power of storytelling for the Palestinian cause, and how she...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 33:17
Piece image
This audio documentary was produced by Shaza Walid for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The course ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
Piece image
This audio documentary was produced by Mostafa Medhat for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The cour...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
Piece image
Witch-hunts are a curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cow...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 26:55
Caption: Hratch Sepetjian stands in front of his class on a typical day. He gets frustrated when his students do not take the Armenian lessons seriously., Credit: Andy Vasoyan
A century after Armenians fled genocide in 1915, language teacher Hratch Sepetjian is fighting to keep their dialect – Western Armenian – alive in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:09
Caption: Journey Under the Sea was the second book in the series.
We dig into the history of the beloved Choose Your Own Adventure series and the interactive stories kids are reading today.

Bought by WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 16:16
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bryson Alexander playing one of his compositions, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bryson Alexander is a Contemporary Classical music composer. At 16 years old, he’s composed nearly 40 pieces...all without knowing how to read or ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
Piece image
The Duct Tape Dragons are a scrappy robotics team made up of disadvantaged youth from the Portland Boys and Girls Club.  They don’t have the resour...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Three stories about inventors who have done some pretty amazing things before even graduating from high school. From cats to semiconductors, these ...

Bought by WTJU and KALW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jacqueline Belton helps Chynna Baker, 18, finish her prom outfit with heels. , Credit: Margaret J. Krauss
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: The members of Catfish Courtesy, circa 2002.
Mindless Chanting is a documentary tracing the DIY history of an obscure and unheard band called Catfish Courtesy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 36:04