In five half-hour documentaries, the series lets kids tell their own tough life stories. The kids we meet come from dramatically different ethnic, economic, and geographical backgrounds but, in one way or another, they're all hurting. At the conclusion, their stories became a point of departure for a two-hour forum. The Lives of the Children documentaries and forum, distributed on radio by Public Radio International in September 1995, are available for listening on this Web site . Lives was the beginning.
Radio is the logical outcome.
This magazine-style program looks across the globe for stories of challenges to childhood and the solutions that enterprising people and programs have invented. In April 1999, our distributor, the WFMT Fine Arts network, began uplinking thirteen scheduled one-hour programs for broadcast by public radio stations across the nation. Later that month, gun violence rained death on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and left deep physical and psychic wounds in its wake. We felt we had something to contribute to the national dialogue that followed the shootings. We produced and distributed to public radio stations a fourteenth program made up of segments from our other shows that offered perspectives that were not being heard in the heat of the moment.