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Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:49
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 29:42
Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 8
Reese Erlich brings us a special report from Libya on the chaos that remains in the wake of the overthrow of hated dictator Muammar Gaddafi. While ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Author Stephen Crane uses images and descriptions from sport to describe a war he never experienced in his classic novel about the American Civil ...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Japanese-American shows uncommon courage on and off the basketball court during WWII.
- Added: Jul 01, 2012
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 2
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This month's program is about human rights.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 02:03:38
Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:36
A documentary exploring the effects of being a refugee on identity and personal relationships.
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 51:59
In a war you have your typical players. They're the soldiers, the medics. Politicians and journalists. The translators and engineers too. And then ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 5
Parts One and Two of Amy DiPierro's series on economic development, poverty, and inequality in Iraqi Kurdistan. These previously released segments ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 22:43
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a common adage says the Kurdish people have “no friends but the mountains.” Today, the mountains along the northern border of ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
- Added: Dec 30, 2011
- Length: 29:00
As the popular uprising against the Syrian government continues, reporter Reese Erlich is one of the few foreign reporters who got into Syria to in...
Bought by WRIR and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
