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Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 16:11
Piece produced for the D.C. Listening Lounge audio challenge. Music by @bruno_ph.
- Added: Feb 16, 2013
- Length: 01:52
Uncle Charles and the Beautiful Losers
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 06:32
It's often said that love can be transformative. For Philly Youth Radio's Dinh To, the saying couldn't be more true. Two years ago, Dinh moved from...
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:01
Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:40
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 29:10
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 25:00
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Judy Sorum constructs beautiful glowing stained glass panels.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 23:11
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 06:31
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 15:02
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 17:42
Monsters? Attempted suicide? The "second hand smoke" of insanity? Bob will be the 1st to admit that clinical psychology requires a bit of a split-...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 07:12
When playing with bugs became macabre Diane started inviting people on "the spectrum" to live with her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:32
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
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
An amateur ornithologist stands guard over a nest in his mailbox; A troubled teen learns to love her pet bunny after it's too late; Brother and sis...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:05
A motorcycle man on a suicide mission faces an existential crisis; A jogger stands up to a pair of armed muggers; A youngster playing in the forest...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:07
