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The End of Smallpox

From: Radio Diaries

Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO

Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Operation Hulda

From: Israel Story

In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...

Bought by PRX Remix

1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall

From: Arndt Peltner

30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

Episode 97: Palace of Justice

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Ger...

Baptism of Solitude: Paul Bowles's Morocco Tapes

From: The Organist

Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...

Bought by KMUN and XRAY.fm

The White Elephant

From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast

In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...

A New Take on an Old Story: “Juliet” by Danish author Anne Fortier

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Anne’s debut novel is an imaginative contemporary view of Italy's iconic star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. Her newest book, "The Lost Sisterho...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KCMJ Community Radio

From Prison to President

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Mandela: An Audio History

Four years after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he became president of South Africa. And yet, those 4 years were among the bloodiest and ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHSU and more

The Navigators Part 6

From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators

The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

The Navigators Part 7

From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators

The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

The Navigators Part 4

From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators

The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

Exploring Jordan, the Art of Dr. Seuss, filmmaker Ken Burns

From: World Footprints LLC

Caption: The Grand Canyon, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick

World Footprints will cross the border into the country of Jordan, uncover Dr. Seuss's social and artistic legacies and share one of our "Best Of" ...

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts

Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1459 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/15/2014

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...

Bought by WKAR, WOUB, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and KVRZ

Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix

Mine Enemy: The Story of German POWs in America

From: Alison Jones

Caption: German POW Otto Schwingel and Linda Anderson on Anderson's farm near Florence, S.C., Credit: courtesy of Ingebourg Schwingel

During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, Angelica Community Radio and more

"Tea and Wireless"

From: Margaret Evans

Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

"Changi Concert Party"

From: Margaret Evans

In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

"England to Australia, 1914"

From: Margaret Evans

This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...

The Peter Yarrow Interview

From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants

Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

The Taj Mahal Interview

From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants

Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...