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Have you ever wanted a backstage press pass to the concerts of some of the biggest rock and roll stars? When you were eleven? With your dad? . . . Do you call your dark room your “soul”? Yes? Yes? Yes? If you liked the Tintype photographer piece, this may interest you, too: this week [...]
This week it’s School Bus from third grade teacher David Green, and third grader, Hannah. Check out the whole series of School Scenes.
Image by Christian et Cie.
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This week we’re going behind the scenes of the news story: it’s Finding a Room from the World Vision Report and Will Everett.
Image by Erin Landry.
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This week, everyone’s a fortune teller: it’s a piece from the new series Red Crystal Palace, called Who Will Be the Next President?. Red Crystal Palace is produced by Fereshteh Toosi.
The Red Crystal Palace
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You know how sometimes you hear something that gets you really excited about radio again? This is Secrets and Noise from Amy Conger.
Image by Laura.
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Ever want to just sell off all your possessions, leave all of modernity and travel across the country . . . in a horse and buggy . . . creating tintype photography . . . and camping in teepees? Yes? Yes? Yes? Yes?
Meet John Coffer.
Image copyright John Coffer 2001
From Salt graduate Megan Martin [...]
In this podcast, we hear the production and workshop process from Curie Youth Radio. The piece is called “Letter to My Mom: You Haven’t Lost Me”, by Natalie Marquez.
Image by Anton Peck.
Hear the rough draft here, on the Generation PRX site, and the final draft on PRX here.
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This week it’s Watching a Riot Through a Window by producer Zak Rosen. The story is told by Mike Mcbride: he originally wrote the piece in 1997 for the Detroit Sunday Journal.
Image by Katka.
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