Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections. (more)

This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance. (more)

Leanne Wolfe, an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Cork, Ireland, committed suicide in March, 2007. On the morning of her funeral, her older sister Treena discovered Leanne’s diaries. (more)

This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time. (more)

This hour: a girl goes on tour with her parents and a woman returns to her homeland in Iran after 40 years away. (more)

This hour: one room school houses from Maui to Maine, each with a unique culture and character. (more)

All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They’re intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio. (more)

Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs. (more)

This hour: the halls of a high school and the alleys of one of the oldest cities in the world. (more)

Three inner-city sisters randomly discuss their reality, intercut with the perceived reality of the country's distant puppet masters. (more)

Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you’ve flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared. (more)

Who’s talking to the next generation of public radio listeners? This session, moderated by Ellin O'Leary, turns the mic over to some of the young producers who are busy expanding the audio documentary form by bringing energy and fresh ideas to the world of radio. (more)

Epic, Painful, Long, Scary is the story of 19-year-old African-Australian twins. The twins hardly remember their mother and father, who both died from AIDS-related illnesses when the boys were just toddlers. (more)

A brief look at the issue of substance abuse among Alaskan youth. (more)

Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska. (more)

Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community. (more)

A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight. (more)

The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing; (more)

In the summer of 2002, 17-year-old Hyder Akbar traveled from California with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences. (more)

Eve Abrams was inspired by the heartfelt reactions of her first grade students to the tragedy currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and in their coastal communities. (more)