Mother's Day Programming: Editor's Picks
Mother's Day is May 11th
By Length:
Hour+ Specials
- Mother's Day Special
World Vision Report, 51:30 - Traditional lifestyles for women are changing in the developing world.
- HV Special -- All Mom Radio
HearingVoices, 53:00 - "Travels with Mom" follows Larry Massett and his mother to Tybee Island, writer Beverly Donofrio joins her mom for "Thursday Night Bingo," a gay man returns home to care for his mom, and comedian Amy Borkowsky shares her hilarious phone "Messages from Mom."
- Mom's Good Move Special
Long Haul Productions, 59:00 - An hour-long special about starting over late in life.
- Birth
Thin Air Media, 56:28 - A documentary about the practices and perceptions of birth in America.
- Getting Raised
KUOW, 59:00 - Teens tell us what it's like to live with parents...or without them.
- Interviews, commentaries, music and conversation to nurture, humor, and enlighten YOU as you dive into motherhood.
- El Beat Latino 20: Celebrating el Dia de la Madre
Catalina Maria Johnson, 59:01 - Tunes from throughout Latin America and Latino USA for Mother's Day.
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Nativity
The Independent Eye, 57:00 - A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.
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And They Never Came Back: Life After Our Parents Have Died
Melanie Berzon, 57:00 - A documentary of the effects of being left both motherless and fatherless at an early age.
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Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson
Sedge Thomson, 44:45 - Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.
Half-Hour Specials
- A Mother's Shortcut
Peter Bochan, 28:24 - "A Mother's Shortcut" - a nostalgic look back at Mother's Day, mixing music, comedy and archival material.
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Mother's Day outLoud
outLoud Radio, 29:30 - A joyous, quirky celebration of motherhood, hosted by a teenager and his mom.
- Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
Dmae Roberts, 25:00 - Winner of the Peabody award, Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Roberts.
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RN Documentary: Not Enough Tears
Radio Netherlands, 29:30 - Rajani Thiranagama was a doctor, a teacher and a committed human rights who was shot in 1989 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her daughter was 11 years old. In this program she talks along with her aunt and her father about her mother and the meaning of her mother's loss in her life.
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The Plan- Grandma
HearingVoices, 29:00 - A family gathering of materfamilias.
Cutaways & Segments - 6:00-22:00
- My Mother's Story
Teresa Goff, 21:09 - Each mother has her own story but as children, we rarely think that our mothers are separate from us. When we have a chance to step back and listen, their stories and their struggles become audible.
- Cathy, 16, Mom Sarah Elzas, 06:06
- Enter Cathy's world of toddlers, diapers and high school parenting classes.
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Dia's Diary: My Mother
outLoud Radio, 06:06 - A transgender woman tells how she came out to her mother.
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Too Curvy and Not Enough Shoulder
Julia DeBruicker, 06:04 - Wilma and her son on bicycling.
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Travels with Mom
HearingVoices, 12:23 - A trip to Tybee Island through time: a mother's POV.
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The Day My Mother's Head Exploded
Hannah Palin, 19:57 - 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 childhood.
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Letter from Chicago
Jonathan Menjivar, 10:41 - A son in Chicago reaches out with a mic to his mom in L.A.
Interstitials & Drop-Ins - Under 6:00
- Letter to My Mom: You Haven't Lost Me
Curie Youth Radio, 02:21 - A letter from daughter to mom about love, hope, and Chuck E. Cheese.
- School for Little Wanderers
Sarah Elzas, 04:29 - A day at a school for teen moms is not exactly like one at a regular high school.
- Mother Daughter Dresses
Joseph Dougherty, 04:07 - Shirley Scott recalls the nightmare of uniformity imposed by "mother-daughter" matching outfits.
- A Mother's Wish
David Greenberger, 01:10 - Wanting to make a mother happy.
- This I Believe - Benjamin Carson
This I Believe, 03:53 - Renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson believes he owes his life and career to his mother.
- Missing Sylvie
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, 04:30 - How do divorced moms keep their sanity when their children are visiting the other parent? Sometimes not so well...
- Here I Am, Saying Thanks To My Mom
Curie Youth Radio, 02:17 - David was born premature, at great risk to his mother. He imagines the day of his birth.
- I'm So Embarrassing to my Children
Nanci Olesen, 03:16 - On Mother's Day, I'm realizing just how embarrassing I am to my children. I say the wrong things, I cry at the wrong time, I act way too happy when I shouldn't...I'm so uncool. How did this happen?
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Dear Mom: I Joined the Marines
Curie Youth Radio, 01:49 - An apology and a plea for a mother's understanding when a son joins the Marines.
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Memorial
Dmae Roberts, 05:50 - Every 100 days, Roberts re-saves the phone messages about and from her mom, who has passed away.
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Mother's Day Diary
Hans Anderson, 02:49 - Humorous faux-diary of my Mother's Day that didn't start out that well.
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Mother's Day "Far Side"
Jake Warga, 04:30 - My mother, her humor and her loss.
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Mothers in Uniform
KRCC, 05:20 - Mothers in the military talk about being deployed.
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StoryCorps: Connie and Blanca Alvarez
StoryCorps, 02:51 - Connie Alvarez interviews her mother, Blanca, about immigrating to the United States from Mexico.
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Watching My Mother's Breath
Dale Short, 05:22 - A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life.
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