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Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 19:47
In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle top...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
This episode is split between two conversations–both about many things–but sharing the theme of protecting others and how that relates to one’s ide...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
We’re spending this hour with our friend, writer, performer, and veteran Navy officer, James Seddon. James is one of the founding members of So Say...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:02
“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 56:23
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
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
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
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 01:01:12
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:20
Under fire for more than 10 days, David Evans and a group of soldiers got an unusual call. It was for a medical evacuation. "I asked if it was one ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 07:53
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Miep Gies, the Austrian woman whose family protected the family of Anne Frank during World War II and who found Anne's diary scattered on the floor...
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 19:01
