Series: The Transom Radio Specials

Produced by Atlantic Public Media

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Transom.org is the public radio website dedicated to helping people tell their own stories. Transom offers the tools, the techniques and the encouragement to get those stories on the air and help public radio fulfill its mission. From time to time Transom creates special hours for broadcast. These are generally stories we're not hearing on traditional broadcast outlets and often the voices of those we don't hear from at all.

Transom Radio Specials are made up of documentaries, portraits and diaries. They're evergreen and can be run separately or as a series. For more from Transom, go to the Transom Radio Hour which focuses on the art and craft of making radio http://www.prx.org/series/11068-the-transom-radio-hours

Four hour long programs will be released every month starting in April 2010 concurrent with their appearance on the Transom.org website.
The first is Transom's tribute to its patron saint, Studs Terkel - America's greatest listener - followed by stories of adoption, two personal diaries about transformation and an oral history about San Francisco's Polk Street


4 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Street Minister, River Sims
An oral history of the Polk Street neighborhood in San Francisco, as told by those who have called it home.

Bought by KALW, KQED, WYSO, KXOT Public Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Two audio diaries: a street kid who decides to wise-up and a person born in the wrong body

Bought by KUNM, WYSO, KXOT Public Radio, KGLT, Public Radio Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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First-person voices from all sides of adoption. Stories about living with questions and searching for answers.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSFR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WYSO, KUOW and more


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Studs Terkel, America's greatest listener: A remembrance from those who worked with him.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KFAI, Interlochen Public Radio, WKSU, WNPR and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 21