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Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Navigating the present, alongside past and future.
Today’s show, “Unstuck in Time,” is titled after the opening line in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slau...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On today’s show we’re talking about, “Aftershocks,” both literal and figurative, related to events that came back to shake us after their initial d...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.” –Stevie Smith.
Today’s episode is titled “Lost At Sea,” for two reasons: f...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Author Matt Young discusses his active duty in the Marine Corps and his transition to home life, as well as his new book Eat The Apple.
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:00
he past doesn’t go anywhere. Time is a river, and you are standing in it. – Utah Phillips
Today’s show is split into three parts and three differe...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
What happens overseas comes home with you, and can find a way to reappear back into your life when you least expect it.
Today’s episode is titled,...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Less than one percent of the entire country serves in the military at any given time nowadays, which is perfectly fine from a national security per...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
This week on the show: Europe marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
We meet WWII veterans on the Normandy beaches. Trump's visit to
Europe sparks...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 58:59
This week on the show:
- The murder of a young journalist during a riot sparks outrage in Northern Ireland.
- Environmental activists cause ma...
- Added: Apr 25, 2019
- Length: 59:00
In episode 14 Farrah returns with Houda to talk about her family’s harrowing experience in their home in Homs, Syria early in the war. After the ev...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 05:20
Larry G. Himes served in the U.S. Air Force, the U.S Army National Guard and the U.S. Army. His service began in 1980. He deployed with the Nationa...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 03:00
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Listen to this fascinating interview with Mike Beck, singer, song writer, horseman, and volunteer contributor to the Joyful Horse Project. The Joyf...
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 48:09
On this edition, we bring you the voices of Veterans from Occupy Wall Street and a special report on veterans returning home from war and the strug...
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- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 29:00
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“One of the things that you can do for a member of the military who is currently serving is to help take care of their family. That happened for us...
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 28:28
Professor Michael Wessells of Columbia University takes us beyond war news. What are the true stresses faced by people in war zones and refugees? B...
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 11:31
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...
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- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 01:56
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From Behind the Screens, on November 5, 2010: War News Radio investigates how video games portray warfare and their impact of player's perceptions ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 07:30
From "The Invisible Threat" (7/9/10): War News Radio reports on Iraqis living near prominent public figures.
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 07:47
Visiting the German troops in the north of Afghanistan
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- Added: Mar 20, 2009
- Length: 28:27
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A family of Bukharan Jewish dancers and musicians escape war-torn Tajikistan. They move to an apartment near Queens BLVD, and go from dodging bulle...
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- Added: Feb 21, 2009
- Length: 03:39
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The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now a decade old, and the impacts on women's health and safety in the country are dire.
This progra...
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 38:50
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.
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- Added: Feb 12, 2008
- Length: 05:25
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A story about Muslims in the American military-including a WWII vet who lobbied the government to designate Islam on military dogtags.
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Jun 06, 2007
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1