Date Pegs » Mother's Day

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The Pulse celebrates Mother's Day with stories about the ways humans — and other species — juggle fierce love and the never-ending demands of child...

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  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 27
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, it is mothers that we pay tribute. So join us for this celebration of mothers, right here at the gathering place ...

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  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 11
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Topic 1 and 2 - Mom Genes, Topic 3 - Improv Parenting

Bought by KUHF, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
  • Purchases: 3
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This edition of The Children's Hour is for all the moms, just in time for Mother's Day.

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  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Music host Paul Ingles guides us through a specially curated music mix for on (or near) Mother's Day with tunes by Brandi Carlile, Emmylou Harris, ...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: Twin mothers with their newborn babies at Columbia Maternity Hospital, Washington, D.C., April 7th, 1939 , Credit: Library of Congress
Some say motherhood is the hardest job in the world; turns out, there's a lot of history to back that up. In this special Mother's Day episode, the...

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  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Julia Ward Howe
The story of Julia Ward Howe's 1871 Proclamation for Peace and her call for a universal Mother's Day to promote peace and disarmament, plus the aut...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Tunes from throughout Latin America and Latino USA for Mother's Day

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2008
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
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A joyous, quirky celebration of motherhood, hosted by a teenager and his mom.

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 13
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"A Mother's Shortcut" - a nostalgic look back at Mother's Day, mixing music, comedy and archival material

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  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 19
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It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2004
  • Length: 19:59
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Caption: A woman prisoner in a cell at the Women’s House of Detention, a women’s-only prison run by the Women’s Prison Association, in the 1940s. , Credit: Women's Prison Association
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
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Linda McGurk wanted her children to love the outdoors, just like she did as a little girl in Sweden. But when she moved to the U.S., she found out ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Boise State Public Radio, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 4
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Stories of mothers and kitchens from playwright Ellen Sebastian Chang, cookbook author Peggy Knickerbocker, designer Cristina Salas-Porras, folklor...

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  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 15:23
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Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:29
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Women over 30 who haven't yet had kids are often told “tick tick; your biological clock is running out of time." Marnie Chesterton digs into the f...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
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Caption: Joanne at 32 weeks, Credit: Jason Reblando
A mom-to-be lays out her fears and expectations of having her first child at the age of 40.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 22:54
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A music teacher tries to stop her newborn’s crying with lullabies. Turns out it’s the worst thing she can do.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:45
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Caption: William in the NICU, Credit: Matt Clark
A newborn turns blue, is rushed to the NICU, and his parents deal with going home while the baby remains in the hospital, hooked up to machines.

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2011
  • Length: 10:36
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Caption: Liesl preps S for an Oliver + S photo shoot., Credit: Todd Gibson
A woman leaves her dream job to stay home with her baby, and then, out of boredom, starts sewing and unwittingly creates a new full-time job for he...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 14:16
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Caption: Owen, the miracle baby, with colic and reflux
After having her first child, a woman experiences heart failure and is told she has less than a 50 percent chance of surviving another pregnancy. T...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
  • Length: 13:44
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A mom who finds breastfeeding stressful discovers that a machine helps her feel closer to her son.

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 11:53
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Caption: One of the photos my dad snapped with his contraband camera, Credit: Richard Frank
A mother unexpectedly breaks down and apologizes to her 34-year-old daughter for not being able to breastfeed her.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 14:24
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Caption: Max, back in his grunting days
A vegetarian of 22 years decides that the way to fix her son’s constant discomfort is to start eating meat.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:33
Caption: Cherlyn and her mom
A woman becomes a mom at the precise moment that her own mother decides to stop being a mother.

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 12:03
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Caption: For many months, this is the only dress Violet would wear. Joyce washed it every night in the sink., Credit: Joyce Slaton
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.

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  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 14:16
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Caption: Kate at her "battle station," with Adelle at 4 months, Credit: Kate Bowman-Johnston
An exasperated mom decides that her daughter WILL nap in her crib by the end of the week.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 16:20
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Caption: Tom and his daughter, Ellen, in his Navy hat, Credit: Heidi Kecskemethy
A newly married guy finds out his wife is pregnant while he’s at sea and just a few years later, to his surprise, becomes a stay-at-home dad.

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 25:01
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Caption: Like a lot of kids with Tourette's, Finn also has severe ADHD. The flip side of that, Amanda says, is that his high energy makes him a ton of fun., Credit: Amanda Morgan
A toddler sniffs all of his Christmas presents before opening them and his mom realizes something is really wrong. What Tourette’s, OCD, and ADHD l...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:00
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A trip to Tybee through time: a mother's p.o.v.

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 7
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A transgender woman tells how she came out to her mother

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2003
  • Length: 06:08
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Enter Cathy's world of toddlers, diapers and high school parenting classes...

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  • Added: May 21, 2004
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 10
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

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  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
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Once you’re a mom, does your vision of the ultimate night out become different from before?

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  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Hope for the Future, Credit: Ahri Golden Photo
From award-winning producer Ahri Golden, A Mother's Lens combines original songwriting, radio journalism, and photography into a sound rich, public...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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High school students tell you what they love about their mothers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: May 22, 2010
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 3
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Maryan Osman and her sister, Fatuma Abdullahi, are Somalis who came to the U.S. as refugees in 2014 and found a stable home with Annie and Randall ...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Fifteen-year-old Adri loves to sing, especially the songs she remembers her mother singing. Adri hasn't seen her mother in six years, but when she ...

  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:31
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David was born premature, at great risk to his mother. He imagines the day of his birth.

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  • Added: May 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 5
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I asked my mother about parenting in hopes to make me feel better about not having any children of my own.

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What would college students say to their mothers on Mother's Day, since many students can't be with her?

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1