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Miles Netzer: "What opportunity would I have ever had without joining?"
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Miles Netzer served with the U.S. Marines from June 2002 through July 2011. He deployed several times to multiple theaters. His parent unit was VMG...

Bought by KALH and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
Tyler Preston: "I knew then that we were going to war."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Tyler Preston joined the Navy on Sept. 14, 1999, and served 11 years as an Aircrew Survival Equipmentman or "Parachute Rigger" and was stationed wi...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Sorn Jessen: "I grew up in Eastern Montana on the Crow Reservation."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Sorn Jessen was attached to the 513th Military Intelligence Battalion out of Fort Gordon, Ga. He deployed with his unit to Camp Doha, Kuwait, in Se...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Warner: "I don't know how many lives were saved by handing them two MREs."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Michael Warner served with the U.S. Marines from 2002 to 2008, deploying to Iraq from 2003 to the end of 2005. His tank unit cleared a large number...

Bought by KALH and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 2
Mikaila Stinar: "When people look at me, they don't see soldier. They just see a girl."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
Caption: Mikaila Stinar, far left, Credit: contributed photo
Mikaila Stinar served in Iraq from 2010 to 2011 with Echo Co. 145th BSB attached to the 1-163rd Infantry Battalion. Her unit provided convoy securi...

Bought by KALH, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 3
The Opening Door Show - Philip Shepherd
From: Wendy Strgar
Series: The Opening Door - Positivity Series
Caption: Philip Shepherd
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 25:51
The Opening Door - Dr. Adam Grant
From: Wendy Strgar
Series: The Opening Door - Positivity Series
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The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 27:35
"Strawberry Dreams: The Psalms of Richie Havens"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Strawberry Dreams: The Psalms of Richie Havens"
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Strawberry Dreams: The Psalms of Richie Havens" is a three-part series dedicated to the music of singer, composer Richie Havens.

  • Added: May 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:58
“Framed, Captured and Gagged: State Repression of Black Radicals in the 1960's”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Yolanda Williams
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detain of Yolanda's portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
Emily’s Diary: Teenage Days
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Emily gives an inside look at “sportos,” “krusties,” “krinkles,” and how being a teenager isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:14
  • Purchases: 1
Frankie's Diary, Part 1: Welcome Home, Dad
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Frankie always thought his family was pretty normal until the day the FBI showed up. His dad had been hiding from the law for 15 years, and Frankie...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, and WJCT


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 3
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
1972: The Birth of Pong and the Rise of Video Games
From: Action Speaks Radio
Caption: A snapshot of Pong , Credit: Google Images
Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back. Is this why we don't leave our houses anymore?

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUNM, WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Program II: Folk Songs and Ballads
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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This program evokes the exciting folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and the role Seeger played in it.

Bought by KUNM, KGLP, WOWD, KWMR, WLRN and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:43
  • Purchases: 21
Program I: Origins
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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Program I: Origins How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:40
  • Purchases: 27
Science of Love
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Findings from the "Love Lab."

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding Depression
From: Christopher Moyer
Series: PsychRadio
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Depression is much more than ordinary unhappiness.

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
How To Make It As A Band
From: WTMD
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Baltimore Unsigned host Sam Sessa interviews club owners, artists and producers on how a band could get their big break.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 09:05
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women, part II
From: Anton Foek
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Karin Artichoker, director of the shelter program in Kyle talks to us

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WGDR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
SxSw from the sidewalks of Austin
From: David Weinberg
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Music and Mayhem from South by Southwest

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 10 Racial Profiling and Beyond
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this program we look at racial profiniling in the valley and beyond, historicly and currently.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 2
Tejidos Culturales 9-La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazarino-Los Penetentes
From: KRZA
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A look at the secret society of La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padres Jesus Nazarino-Los Penitentes in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM, KUPR low power FM, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 3
Tejidos Culturales #7: Who Chained the Road up, y quien es Jack Taylor?
From: KRZA
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In this program we look at the closing off of a Land Grant easment by Jack Taylor, the decision in this will set precedent for land rights all over...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1