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The Queen's Soviet Spy
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when P...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Museum seeks WWII Navy pilots
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A plane recovered from Lake Michigan, Credit: John Davies
To accompany a documentary screening, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is searching for Navy pilots who trained on Lake Michigan during World...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 4
JFK: Unsung War Hero
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: OCTOBER, 2015
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Author William Doyle reads the first of two passages from his book, PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy.....

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Burn your bridges
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
On the same wavelength
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer Winner On Washington's Legacy & Death
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: NOVEMBER 2014
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Pulitzer-winner Edward Larson reads from his new biography, The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789, recently reviewed positively in WSJ and NYT...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
U.S. General Shocks A President
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: AUGUST 2014
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Only uncovered recently: a famous general commits a crime... but world events overshadow it. Author Nigel Hamilton reads from his book, The Mantle ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Mitchell Zuckoff reads from Frozen In Time: An Epic Story of Survival and A Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (5/26)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Wendell Affield - "Streams"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Henry Nicholas Gunther, November 11, 1918
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...

Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gertrude Bell (founder of Iraq), July 11, 1926
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
William T. Tutte (British Codebreaker), May 2, 2002
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Marcel Mangel(Marceau), September 22, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Corrie Ten Boom, April 15, 1983
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Battleship Missouri Memorial
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Battleship Missouri Memorial, Credit: USS Missouri Memorial Association
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Delta College Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVMR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 4
pioneer - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
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The story behind the word "pioneer"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:35