A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field. (more)

This hour: Running on two legs, running on four, but most importantly, running with all your might. (more)

A few years ago, radio producer Sarah Reynolds was privy to an intimate confession: her friend Megan told her that she was about to undergo a transition in gender from female to male. (more)

This hour: karaoke as marital therapy, a man tries to cure his stutter, the weird world of Tupperware parties, and more. (more)

Imagine being so hyperactive and distractible that you can barely keep track of where you are, who you’re talking to, and what you’re talking about. (more)

This hour: sign language, lip-reading, and deaf culture. (more)

This hour: a surprising look at the relationship between a hospice worker and his patient. (more)

Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma. (more)

How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them? (more)

Thirty years ago no one believed that the psychological problems suffered by Vietnam soldiers were caused by their service in the war. (more)

Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words.  (more)

A patient, blinded in an accident, wakes to another day of darkness. Resolved to sidestep the persistent murk of her obscured vision, she turns instead to the world of her imagination and memory, where the everyday patterns of human routine take on a new significance. (more)

This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world. (more)

This hour: a retired child beauty queen recalls her youth and a young man revels in eating trash. (more)

This hour: brothers and sisters contend with family illness. (more)

Surjit Sachdev grew up in a conservative family in India. Surjit’s father was an engineer, and he’s an engineer, but the family tradition ended when Surjit's son was born with a severe mental disability. (more)

The story of a woman's fifth breast biopsy. (more)

A young patient reinvents his experience of being in the hospital through metaphor and allusion. Responding to "what if" questions, Andrew exemplifies the transformative qualities of fantasy, empathy, and humor. (more)

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

Andrew Skillings is eleven now, but he was first diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, when he was just two. (more)