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"Students and Soldiers" weaves together wartime stories from twelve Montana veterans of various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Interviewed by t...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
A veteran of 25 years witnesses a fellow soldier kill an eight year-old girl. Upon returning home, he develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and f...
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 05:31
Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 5
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...
- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 3
Is Maine immune to a deadly bat disease?
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 2
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
We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of th...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...
Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 32
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 30:50
Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 2
When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 07:10
Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...
Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.
Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 11:23
- Purchases: 2
Steve Moore learned about the nature of comedy at an early age. He refined his talents out in LA and just as his career was taking off he was diagn...
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 26:15
In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 14:39
The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy.
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 12:09
The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack.
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 11:14
Eight years have passed since Laura Bush declared that "because of our recent military gains, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes" in Afg...
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 10:51
The war in Afghanistan and its potentially catastrophic impact on Pakistan are complex and dangerous issues, which further make the case why our co...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 10:42
President Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission, and e...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 11:46
We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
