YouthCast

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YouthCast is a podcast and blog featuring the next generation of sound from Generation PRX. Host Molly Adams brings you the best stories from youth producers across the country, along with links, video and photo morsels from the media field. 

Learn more.  Visit Generation PRX, PRX's project to support, connect and distribute youth-produced radio. 

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Caption: Victoria and her mom, Maria Isabel
Maria Isabel wasn't supposed to finish the 6th grade. She lived in a tiny mountain ranch in Mexico, where girls stayed home to cook and raise child...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:13:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Would a high school nutrition teacher think twice before condemning Coca Cola if she knew her paycheck was paid for, in part, by Coca Cola? Could a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:14:00
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Jacorey is an aspiring radio producer who's working on a degree in radio broadcasting at Southern Maine Community College. He is also incarcerated...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 00:14:30
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In this story, Masters student in creative writing, Jennie Gruber, recalls her post-college years collecting garbage for a recycling company in San...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:01
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Cristel moved to Philadelphia from the Dominican Republic with one goal in mind: to become a music producer. She didn't expect the daily routine of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:39
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Vincent Geary studies radio in Brooklyn College's Radio department. He also gambles, betting on sports events along with most of his friends in ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:29
Caption: Brentton eating a chicken and waffle sandwich
This week on Youthcast, we're featuring a piece by Brentton Harrison, a 19 year old culinary school student who lives in South Carolina. Do You W...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:21
  • Purchases: 1
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It used to be that entering the financial sector—be it as a banker, a stock broker, maybe a hedge fund manager! Whatever they do!—was a normal, van...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 00:15:12
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Chelsey Russell interviews her grandfather about his struggle with alcoholism, and the faith he has put in Jesus to help in recover.

Bought by WGXC and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: So much pizza!, Credit: Flickr User rj3
Ah, the mysterious life of a pizza delivery man, finally captured in his natural habitat. This documentary takes a smooth non-narrated path to tel...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Change? That's not scary at all. Youthcast welcomes a new host this week, and features a short list from Third Grade Audio. Other goodies follow, ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:21
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As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches this week, a lot of people feel a sense of fatigue--some just aren’t interested in looking back. And one...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:51
  • Purchases: 1
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You’re probably hearing a whole bunch of back to school nonsense right now: features about homeschooling, tracking, uniforms, extended school hours...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:50
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Poop talk: when its personal, its embarrassing—at least for most people—but when you’re talking about global access to sanitary conditions, it’s a ...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Deoine and Vikky
YouthCast features a love story in honor of civil unions between same sex couples being recognized in the state of Illinois and the marriages of co...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Pat remembers his step-mother, Barbara Jean, from the first time they met, to the last time he saw her. Though the 11 years in between were sometim...

Bought by WGXC and KUT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Harambee Market, Credit: King Anyi Howell
Class division, and therefore in a lot of urban areas, race division, can make for food issues that go beyond having a farmer’s market in your hood...

Bought by KUT and WGXC


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:15
  • Purchases: 2
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It’s a childhood dream, to grow up in the wild, close to nature, maybe in a tree-house, Swiss Family Robinson style. But in reality, it might not b...

Bought by KUT and WGXC


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:15:52
  • Purchases: 2
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KUNM Youth Radio attended the César Chávez Day celebrations in Albuquerque where Dolores Huerta was speaking. She was interviewed by Victor Torres ...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:54
  • Purchases: 1