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Ep 2 - War
From: Vladic Ravich
Series: Taxi Taxi
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Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
Episode 11: Dragonman - Behind the Guns
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13
DeLeon Springs History
From: Christopher Howell
Caption: Spillway at DeLeon Springs, Credit: Christopher Howell
DeLeon Springs was the site of a Civil War skirmish. It has a strange and troubled history.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:01
Nathan Hale and the 4th Blood Moon
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:48
An American Life
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
Caption: Vaughn Hood, Credit: Erica Heilman
A story about war and hairdressing.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:50
We've Never Been The Same: A War Story
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Some of Delta 187 Rakassans
We've Never Been The Same: A War Story is the story of one night of battle and the decades of recovery that followed. Produced by Adam Piore and Ja...

Bought by KRWG, KUHF, WFDD, WORT, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 107
Christopher Columbus and the US Navy
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Columbus tricks the Arawaks. History of the US Navy, the Barbary Wars and more...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:56
A Canadian Vacation
From: Justin Bull
Caption: Graeme S. Mount, retired professor of history at Sudbury's Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, at his home in Sudbury, May 2015., Credit: Justin Bull
If the United States were embroiled in a third world war and the American public learned that Barack Obama were taking eight days off in the middle...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 3
An Unofficial Embassy for Displaced Kurds
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar., Credit: Taylor Haney
Luqman Barwari abandoned his career to open a Kurdish restaurant in the U.S., a meeting place where immigrant Kurds can keep memories of home alive.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Prelude to Summer
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...

  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
From: Johnna Kerres
Caption: In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
This radio program features veterans of all eras beginning with World War II to the present day. Nine veterans share their recollections of before,...

Bought by 'The Sea' and WDSE


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:34
  • Purchases: 2
Civil defense sirens activated for severe weather
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Somali artist Aziz Osman paints life, loss, and hope
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
Six Chairs: Rowan Pope, Voice to Vision and the Holocaust Book Project
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
Birds of a Feather
From: Israel Story
Caption: "Yoram" aiming at one of his soon-to-be crow victims.
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 2
Bombs drop at Brookings, Oregon
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
Humankind special: The Christmas Truce
From: David Freudberg
Caption: Wounded young soldier in WW1
Produced in association with WGBH/Boston. On the occasion of its 100th anniverary, we take a moving look at the 1914 Christmas Truce, in which oppo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Interlochen Public Radio, KWIT, KVSC, KWMR and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 48
When Oregon's Fort Stevens was shelled during WWII, Why didn't They Fire Back?
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: The 10-inch guns at Battery Russell that weren't fired.
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...

Bought by WSLR and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 2
Returning from war: two young veterans tell their story
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: James Furnas in Baghdad, 2003
U.S. servicemen James Furnas and Zach Bair have been deployed multiple times to dangerous regions in the Middle East. Coming home and starting life...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Tyler Dean Revolutionary War 3 Battle Documentary
From: Dean B
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A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:26
Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 4
War and Musical Dada
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 7
Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
From Child Soldier to Stylist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1

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