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Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
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Bradley Scherzer teaches art with Fremont Ross High School in Fremont, Ohio. Much of his recent work has been organizing/engaging communities and y...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Knock-Out Parkinson’s is a therapeutic boxing program for individuals of varying ages diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. We discover the origins o...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool. Today she's thriving. (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado), Credit: (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado)
In North Philadelphia, some teen girls live by the credo: “cold is cute.” Anger and emotional distance are crucial survival tools. For Sophia Delga...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
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Re-live all the show tunes, melodrama and backstage gossip that is the school theater as Mortified pays tribute to the Drama Nerd. Featuring Amy Di...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
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What happens when an innocent crush on a teacher becomes not-so-innocent. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen to...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2017
  • Length: 20:07
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Labre (pronounced labra) is a program named after St. Benedict Joseph Labre, Patron of the homeless, and is an outreach to the hungry. Each Monday,...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:19
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we'll continue our story on YAAW, that's The Young Artists at Work. In part one you heard from Michelle...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:12
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Part 1 in our Forbidden Crush Series features a teenager that obsessed over the school's most powerful authority figure.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2016
  • Length: 21:37
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An outspoken goth uses the school newspaper to tell off the popular kids.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 20:16
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we'll take a look into the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and a woman that portrays her, Gail Conrad. Gail...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:09
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What conclusions about parenthood will teenagers come to after participating in their AP Psychology class’ flour baby project? Listen as they share...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jonathan Brown
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bo...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Joshua Williams struggles every day paying for food and finding a place just to sleep. Listen to an American teenager who has been homeless.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:11
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Jabari Omari dealt with adulthood much sooner than the typical teenager. This is his story of being forced to grow up way too fast.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:41
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For LaKeva Brown, finishing school comes with an added caveat: eviction. In LaKeva's situation, she must prepare to support herself.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:40
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La' Trisha Dillon has to confront the financial consequences of a serious relationship coming to an end. In doing so, she's pushed to her limits.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: James at Phillips Exeter
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:08

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 12:52
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Brina keeps this audio journal of her first year at Brown University. “I have this weird sense that anybody I meet I might never see again. And al...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:06
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
Caption: Addie Malone
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Kadie Kelly, founder of the Oakland Single Parents Network, has a Master’s degree but is still struggling to find work
Now we’re going to hear from a young woman who recently completed her college education. Kadie Kelly was a stay-at-home mom when she first went bac...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...

Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 8