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In some US neighborhoods, it is easier to get a gun than fresh produce. In Los Angeles, Ron Finley is taking a stand - one garden at a time.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 27:33
- Purchases: 1
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I wa...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 39:19
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Ballerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it, in a ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A young Indian activist quits his Google job to clean up lakes in his country.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:33
In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 47:57
What would it look like for you to live your life with grace?
This SUPERHUMANS story shows us how to experience loss with Grace. Kristi opens up a...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 36:40
If given a do-over in life, what would you do with it?
This SUPERHUMANS story takes us on a beautifully raw journey that displays the courage and ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 26:36
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Mishy Harman and Marie Röder visit an empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, where they shadow the duo behind one of Israel’s most popular news...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 17:56
One man's Grandma becomes a social media icon for humerous advice.
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle top...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
Our guest on Episode 18 is Marine Corps veteran, professor of political science, and former California State Assembly Speaker Nathan Fletcher. Nath...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
This episode is split between two conversations–both about many things–but sharing the theme of protecting others and how that relates to one’s ide...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
We’re spending this hour with our friend, writer, performer, and veteran Navy officer, James Seddon. James is one of the founding members of So Say...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:02
“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 56:23
Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...
- 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
