98 episodes
RadioActive KUOW News and Information
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- Kids & Family
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4.9 • 35 Ratings
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Stories produced by students participating in our youth media program. Learn more about the intensive, fun and free introductory radio journalism workshops we offer throughout the year.
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Why one young Marine refused to fight in Iraq
It’s been more than 20 years since Darren Fisher said 'no' to fighting in the so-called war on terror.
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Building community is 'an act of social justice’ at the Seattle Fandango Project
RadioActive’s Vivi Cardenas-Habell says the Seattle Fandango Project played a key role in her upbringing. But she didn’t fully appreciate it until Covid took it away.
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At 16, my grandma had an abortion. At 18, I’m telling her story
In the summer of 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide, Elaine Fichter was 16 years old and eight weeks pregnant.
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My grandfather’s 'Little Story': A journey through war and prison in Vietnam
My grandparents and their children lived comfortably in southern Vietnam. But everything changed on April 30, 1975.
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Separated from his family in Eritrea at 7, this Seattle man now mentors East African kids
When Habtom Hagos was 7 years old, he was separated from his family.
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The First Night Project makes cancer ward stays a little easier for teens
A cancer diagnosis "sucks." And the hospital stays that follow don't make it any easier.
Customer Reviews
Comfort in knowing
As a middle-aged (as if we really know what our middle is going to be)I greatly enjoy the thoughtfulCreations that make their way to the airwaves via this podcast. It provides comfort in knowing if there are those decades younger than me asking lots of questions and seeking their own definition of the mysteries they encounter.
I’m still asking questions, still living mysteries and I hope you will be too, when you are my age and much much older.
When curiosity and compassion move together, it’s a beautiful dance.
These podcasts are soooo good!
I’ve been listening to Radioactive for almost a year now and I love it! The stories that the teen reporters research, write, and record are so real, so touching, compassionate, and thoughtful. Some are better than the podcasts I’ve listened to that are made by adults. Great work, everyone!
Stellar Storytelling
KUOW is the only public radio station in the U.S. with an award winning program like RadioActive! which PAYS TEENAGERS to learn how to make radio (!!!) This station clearly has a commitment to the next generation of radio & podcast listeners, and by the sound of their stories, you already know quality storytelling is a bedrock principal instilled within each student. Bravo, KUOW and the team leading audio storytelling teens! Put these stories in your ears and remember the author’s names.