Mother Mine

Mother Mine

Audio snapshots of our mothers and who we are because of them using the voices and stories of ordinary people across the globe.

Episodes

February 13, 2022 10 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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February 6, 2022 5 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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February 2, 2022 4 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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January 30, 2022 5 mins

In this second half of the project we will be hearing from lots of people around the world whose mother tongue is not English. Although many of them will be speaking in English, there  will be some episodes in other languages, like this one which is in Spanish.

To honor the story teller, they will be telling the stories in their own voices, and in their own languages. But there will be versions with English subtitles on th...

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January 26, 2022 5 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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January 23, 2022 5 mins

Special thanks to Shawn and his team at In-depth Creative in Jakarta, Indonesia for recording the contributor for this episode.

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episod...

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January 19, 2022 4 mins

In this second half of the project we will be hearing from lots of people around the world whose mother tongue is not English. Although many of them will be speaking in English, there  will be some episodes in other languages, like this one which is in French.

To honor the story teller, they will be telling the stories in their own voices, and in their own languages. But there will be versions with English subtitles on the...

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January 16, 2022 4 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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January 12, 2022 7 mins

Thank you to this contributor for letting me use her song, Reason for a Song, in this episode.

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's sto...

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January 9, 2022 3 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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January 5, 2022 7 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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January 2, 2022 7 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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December 29, 2021 6 mins

I'd like to thank the recordist Pooleside for the sound of Seven Mile Beach in Jamaica that I used in this episode. You can find it here: https://freesound.org/people/Pooleside/sounds/47180/

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a...

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December 26, 2021 5 mins

In this second half of the project we will be hearing from lots of people around the world whose mother tongue is not English. Although many of them will be speaking in English, there  will be some episodes in other languages, like this one which is in Spanish.

To honor the story tellers, they will be telling the stories in their own voices, and in their own languages. But there will be versions with English subtitles on t...

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December 22, 2021 4 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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December 19, 2021 4 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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December 15, 2021 10 mins

Special thanks to Shawn and his team at In-depth Creative in Jakarta, Indonesia for recording the contributor for this episode.

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episod...

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December 12, 2021 3 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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December 8, 2021 4 mins

Mothers can be controversial. They can be wonderful. They can be terrible. They can be both wonderful and terrible in turns.

But whatever they are, whatever yours was and is, mothers are universal. Everyone begins with a mother, even if she isn’t around later. In each Mother Mine episode I present one person's stories about their mother — these figures who literally made us. Who are our mothers? What do we remember a...

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