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Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Navigating the present, alongside past and future.
Today’s show, “Unstuck in Time,” is titled after the opening line in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slau...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On today’s show we’re talking about, “Aftershocks,” both literal and figurative, related to events that came back to shake us after their initial d...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.” –Stevie Smith.
Today’s episode is titled “Lost At Sea,” for two reasons: f...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Author Matt Young discusses his active duty in the Marine Corps and his transition to home life, as well as his new book Eat The Apple.
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:00
he past doesn’t go anywhere. Time is a river, and you are standing in it. – Utah Phillips
Today’s show is split into three parts and three differe...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
What happens overseas comes home with you, and can find a way to reappear back into your life when you least expect it.
Today’s episode is titled,...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Less than one percent of the entire country serves in the military at any given time nowadays, which is perfectly fine from a national security per...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Why we're losing against COVID-19--but don't have to be.
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 40:06
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is nev...
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- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry,author of "Original Politics: Makin...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Radio newsman Art Schreiber was one of only 2 American reporters allowed on The Beatles historic 1964 first tour of the United States. Schreiber te...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
It’s been one year since a gunman opened fire in Dayton’s Oregon District, killing nine people and injuring 27.
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- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 24:00
We hear from authors Kristin Higgins, Anne Enright, and David Pepper--they all have new novels to tell us about, and later in the show we’ll hear f...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 59:54
Highlights from a 2002 writer's forum in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that featured beloved New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya.
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- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
We celebrate National Poetry Month with Mark Doty as he discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 Nati...
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- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Nora is a 5th grade student in Austin, Texas, and is continuing her grandmother's tradition of Irish step dancing.
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 03:22
Is it acceptable to use fallen leaves for garden mulch and compost making or should we leave them alone? And of course, Mike Mcgrath takes your ph...
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 54:58
n my story, you will hear my mom talk about her journey and what it was like growing up and getting kicked out of Ethiopia.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 03:12
The American Dream . . . Fact or fiction? For those who come to the U.S. undocumented as children, the future can seem uncertain.
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- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
They say girls shouldn’t go to school. And by "they", we mean Boko Haram.
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 28:59
