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Playlist: Best of Public Radio

Compiled By: Eboni Lemon

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My first ever radio anything

How to Be a Man...(sort of)

From Ryan Scammell | 10:00

Father & sons, the woods, and our feeble attempts at trying to figure out what it means to be a man.

Manly-men-724892_small A few years ago, my dad invited me to come out to his brother's house the day after Thanksgiving to chop wood.  How does a kid who's mom raised him to be gender-neutral figure out how to be a man?

By Faith and Not by Sight

From Phaye Poliakoff-Chen | 09:10

A funeral diary for the grandmother she'd never met.

Default-piece-image-0 Auliya Jackson's funeral diary.

StoryCorps: Wil and Olivia Smith

From StoryCorps | Part of the StoryCorps series | 02:00

Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.

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Wil Smith was 27 when he enrolled as a freshman at Bowdoin College in Maine.

But his age wasn’t the only thing that set him apart from his classmates. When Wil set off for school he had his infant daughter, Olivia, in tow.

Now a teenager, Olivia sat down with her dad to look back on their college days.

Wil and Olivia recorded this conversation shortly after he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
 

StoryCorps: Sarah and Joshua Littman

From StoryCorps | 02:43

Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college.

Littman2_small Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college.