Playlist: In The Family
Compiled By: Jesse Rhodes
If you could cram your family under a microscope, these are the stories you'd find.
What We Wish We Could Tell Our Parents
From april winbun | 01:31
Mom, Dad: About That Bullet Hole in the Basement...
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Through this vox-pop, the entire world gets to hear the secrets that teenagers will never reveal to their parents.
Some samples:
"I sell porn to students"
"Mom, I love Dad more"
"I want to be a writer"
"I joined the Marines"
"Sorry, Mom, but my sister smokes pot on a daily basis"
"Every time I said I was at the library, I was actually..."
My Dad's Records
From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Part of the CBC Radio's Outfront series | 14:04
Kent Hoffman draws an intimate portrait of his late father through the memories triggered by an inherited record collection.
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My Dad's Records Producers: Kent Hoffman and Carma Jolly Kent Hoffman draws an intimate portrait of his late father through the memories triggered by an inherited record collection. When Kent and his five-year-old son Evan sit down for the first time and listen to the record collection, what evolves is no mere sentimental journey. It is an evocation of how the quirky musical tastes of a father become the legacy of a son, and grandson. Told with wit and affection, My Dad's Records considers how musical memories can be both deeply personal and elusive. Broadcast on CBC Radio One's Outfront June 16, 2004 September 1, 2004 SEE ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS Outfront Opening and Closing Theme available - (see Rundown section for more details)
Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
From Phyllis Fletcher | 28:57
A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote from prison.
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"It hurts me to have left so many kids out there in this world. But believe me, at the rate that I was going, if somebody were to have to go, it was always best for the kid and the mother that I was the one to go." My father wrote me these words, and many more, from prison. Before we were reunited, he died, leaving behind 14 children with 13 different mothers. In Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill, I seek out my siblings and their mothers, and draw from their voices a portrait of the father we never knew. My dad speaks for himself in excerpts from his letters, read throughout the piece by his first-born son. Featured on Transom.org. For more information and conversation, visit "Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill" on Transom.
Blind Parenting
From Sterling Smalley | 11:24
Siblings Sterling and Maura Smalley talk to no one in particular about raising kids as blind parents.
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Siblings Sterling and Maura Smalley talk to no one in particular about raising kids as blind parents.
Two Little Girls Explain The Worst Haircut Ever
From Jeff Cohen | 02:57
My five year old cut off my three year old's hair. A few weeks later, I decided to interview them and get their explanations. Here's what they told me.
Happy to say that this little radio story has taken another life. In the summer of 2014, it will be a children's book released by HarperCollins Children's Books. Take a look!
Sit With Me
From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | 07:35
Twelve year old Cameron Ledoux talks with his father about his dad's depression.
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Cameron Ledoux?s father is depressed. Because of his illness, his dad can?t work and sleeps at home much of the time. Cameron, age 12, sits down with his dad to address the unspoken.
Dear Father
From Littleglobe | 02:40
Gabriel Martinez, a seventh grader, wrote this thoughtful and moving letter to his unknown father.
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Gabriel Martinez, a seventh grader, wrote this thoughtful and moving letter to his unknown father.
Juan's Diary, Part 1: Looking at the Rio Grande
From Radio Diaries | Part of the Teenage Diaries series | 24:32
Juan crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years before he first recorded with Radio Diaries. At the time of his original diary, Juan and his family lived in a poor community just this side of the US-Mexican border.
This story is part of the Teenage Diaries series produced by Radio Diaries for NPR.
*Podcast with Juan's Teenage Diary also included.
Juan and his family crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years ago. Now they live in a poor community just this side of the US-Mexican border.
This story is part of the Teenage Diaries series produced by Radio Diaries for NPR. Since 1996, Executive Producer Joe Richman has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to document their lives. In December of 2012, Radio Diaries will revisit five of the original diarists 16 years after their first recordings. The series airs on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Dad and Sam (Locked in Brotherhood)
From Jay Allison | Part of the The Life Stories Collection series | 04:43
A short meditation on the relationship between my father and his mentally disabled older brother, Sam.
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This piece comes from the Life Stories Collection ("Fathers and Sons" hour). I have broken it out because it would work well by itself around either Christmas or Father's Day. The setting is a Christmas table. The story is about my father and his love for his brother Sam, in the face of Sam's mental disability. The love and connection continues past death. Sam was a singer and we hear him sing Oh Holy Night and Silent Night in this piece. The piece was produced in th 1980s sometime, but I think it holds up okay.