Listening

Yesterday Producer Jenny Asarnow stopped by Weekday High for a "lesson" on youth radio. I put lesson in quotes because what Jenny really stressed was how flexible, diverse, and creative youth radio can be. So even though we listened to and discussed a bunch of different stories, the take home message was to use them as jumping off points to produce our own unique sounds.

If you're interested, here's what we heard:

- Ghetto Life 101 - by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman in Chicago and Dave Isay in NYC for Sound Portraits

- What we wish we could tell our parents - by Curie Youth Radio students in Chicago

- The Cruz Azul - by Claudia Villa for KRCB's Voice of Youth in Sonoma County, California (and withouth music on The World)

- DNA of the Black Experience - by Anyi Howell for Youth Radio in Oakland, California (and without the poem on NPR)

And as bonus, here are the links to two of the youth radio specials Jenny produced for KUOW - with special help from some Weeday High graduates.

- Getting Raised - "Getting raised isn't easy. In this hour-long special, we hear stories from those who know. Teenagers explain how to deal with in-your-face parents, abusive parents, absent parents and becoming a parent when you're still in high school."

- The Migration Project - "All teenagers search for identity, but some ask "who am I?" in more than one language. Young people tell us what it's like to cross the border, learn language, and lose language. We're not going to pick apart policies. We'll hear what it's like to be a young immigrant."