RadioActive
Stories produced by students participating in our youth media program. Meet the current youth producers, and learn more about the intensive, fun and free introductory radio journalism workshops we offer throughout the year.
Episodes
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How we realized we needed to question other people's biases
Everyday we encounter things we don’t question and just accept. Things like stop signs: why are they octagons? And fire trucks: why are they red? At...
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Six months after the Parkland shooting, local student activists reflect
Bill Radke talks to two local student activists about how they were inspired to organize. We talk to Justin Velasco, who helped found the Seattle...
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'We're not supposed to feel unsafe:' back to school in the age of school shootings
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our...
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Back to school in the age of school shootings
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our School Shootings in America podcast, we speak to teens in Seattle to see how they’ve been inspired to take action, and why this event was different than the ones before. Why now? What inspired these students to get involved in one of the nation’s most controversial policy debates, and what keeps them going?
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Six months after Parkland: 'Even to this day, it doesn’t feel real'
School shootings have been a horrifying reality in the United States for far too long. However, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...
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How rap moved to SoundCloud from the streets
We know what rap is today, but not everyone knows where it came from and how it started. Today we will discuss rap and its evolution. Grandmaster Flash,...
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Sneak peek: New RadioActive podcast season
Twenty teens from Seattle and beyond have spent their summer at KUOW and Jack Straw Cultural Center creating podcasts and radio stories. They...
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Meet youth journalists and hear unforgettable stories
RadioActive Listening Party
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'Two whites don’t make a Wong': Feeling like an outsider as an interracial adoptee
I've always known I was adopted because I have white parents. In school, people talked about what traits they got from each of their parents: their eyes...
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The weird and wonderful ways food brings us together on social media
The popularity of cooking shows, food photography, and fine dining testifies to the fact that in today’s culture our need to eat goes far beyond...
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I dropped out of high school to help with rent. I still have big dreams
It's graduation season, and while many are donning their caps and gowns, others are taking a different path. Like me. I've spent the spring trying to...
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Dear Anxiety, you are 10 times the taste, the touch, the smell
I am 18 years old, and I have a condition where I am very hyper aware of things. I have ADHD and anxiety, so my attention span is very limited. I'm not...