Culture Shock: An Audio Documentary on the Rose Urban Rural Exchange

Culture Shock is an audio documentary that features the experiences of four teens as they learn about a different way of life and a new culture - both of which exist side-by-side in the largely rural state of Alaska. Two rural teens welcomed two urban teens into their lives in remote Alaska Native villages for two weeks. Then, the urban kids brought their host siblings home to Anchorage. This sound-rich documentary is told by the teens who participated in the exchange and was produced by a team of youth reporters in the studio. Go caribou hunting in Akiachak, take a steam bath in Tununak, and go to a high school that has more students than people living in your home town - all in a fascinating half-hour of Culture Shock. Culture Shock was distributed to public radio stations around Alaska. It aired in the Anchorage market 6 times in its entirety on KNBA, KSKA and KRUA. A truncated 18-minute version aired statewide on the Alaska Public Radio Network's radio magazine AK.