A romping roots music celebration of fathers, papas and ding dong daddies. From Kate Borger.

Give your Dad the Blues for Father's Day!

Four stories of men and family from Jay Allison with Christina Egloff & Friends. Part of the Life Stories Collection.

Throughout American history, economics - not affection - has been the real tie that binds a family together. So when did the "traditional" family emerge? And whose tradition is it, anyway?

On this edition of B-Side we're offering a little unsolicited advice, and some fatherly humor as we explore our relationships with people we're tied to by blood or common history. From B-Side Radio.

Barack Obama delivers a father's day speech at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago in June of 2008. From PRX and WBEZ.

A Father's Day Special, a classic mix of memorable music, clips and interviews with Dad

Joe Bevilacqua uses audio he recorded as a child to recount how his volatile father's gift of a tape recorder led him to another father figure (Daws Butler) and an eventual career in radio.

A 20-minute documentary that aired nationally on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition on December 15, 2002. It is a moving story about a father and daughter, stroke, aphasia, loss, and hope.

Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality and loss in recordings she made during the last months of her father's life.

Comedian Chris Elliott comes from a family of funny people, including his dad Bob of the famous Bob and Ray duo. Together they opened up about comedy that is all in the family. Chris Elliott: "I can remember trying to impress my dad with my sense of humor. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing."

Nigel Chase spent much of his youth learning the art of making and playing steel drums with his father. Nigel now makes a living making pans, playing pan music professionally and teaching steel drum music in the small coastal community of Brooksville, ME.

In this wobbly economy, few parents have the luxury any more of staying at home with their kids. But producer Jill Strauss found a father who can afford it, understands his value to the family, and, for the most part, really likes his role...

Ten years after his parents' deaths, producer Jake Warga found a box of cassettes of his father interviewing him when he was a kid. Simple and sweet. From Jake Warga.

Dave Masch of Cataumet, Mass. talks with Viki Merrick about learning from his father's mistakes and omissions.

Songwriter Dave Alvin describes his song "Man in the Bed" which tells the story of the last day of his father's life.

Samuel Black tells his wife, Edda Fields-Black, about his father, who operated a boiler room.

David Shea tells his friend Alice Doyle about learning something new about his father, Denny Shea.

A father-daughter coming of age story from Viki Merrick.

Josh Fleming grew up in a family of miners in Appalachia. In this piece he talks with his father about what being a coal miner has meant to his family and why he values the profession despite its risks.

First person narrative about missing Dad.

This teenager's matter-of-fact narrative is full of conflicting assertions about life without her dad. This piece is an illustration of the real-life, everyday struggle to accept that a parent didn't do the right thing.

Nathan Williams, 15, interviews his father, Colbert, 30, about being a single parent.

"Mom, Dad: About that bullet hole in the basement..."

Through this vox-pop, the entire world gets to hear the secrets that teenagers will never reveal to their parents. From Romana Amato, Jose Benitez, Lucy Munoz, and April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.

Tony Gargagliano [gar-GAH-lee-AHN-oh] tells his friend Cathie Campbell about his father, an Italian immigrant.