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Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
Soldier Philosophers Part 1: Moral Exploitation
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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As a new U.S. administration takes hold, with talk of new military action against ISIS in the Middle East, and the reinstatement of Bush-era tortur...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 45:50
Drones at Liberty: Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Part 2 of Drones at Liberty: Our conversation continues to explore the meaning of drones--drones as instruments of war and policing, drones in the ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:35
Roger Cox: "There were nights you couldn't tell blood from sweat."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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On Roger Cox's third night in a Vietnam fox hole, 30 men died. He was one of three or four he served with who came home. The Marine says those who ...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 2
Donald Loranger Jr.: "Everything that happened in the world, I got to be a part of."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Maj. Gen. Donald Loranger was a kid from Havre, a small town in north central Montana. He was the first member of his family to go to college who e...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:35
Beau Buffkin: "Warfare over there is very, very impersonal."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Beaufort Buffkin served with the U.S. Army as an infantry specialist during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Bravo Battery, with which he...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Shawn Grove: "It was after 9/11 and I thought I could make a difference."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Shawn Grove was a linguist in the U.S. Army for five years and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He spent a year in a horse stable, which he said ...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Maxey Carpenter: "It was a good job. So it was like: Move out, kid."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Maxey B. Carpenter achieved the rank of full colonel in the U.S. Army in a career that spanned nearly 30 years. He was deployed to Panama, the Phil...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Craig Misajet: "Hey man, chill out. Your legs are still there. You're good."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Craig Misajet joined the Marine Corps in Feburary 2008, partly to get out of the trouble he'd found in high school in Wyoming. He went to Iraq, whi...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Adam McCaw: "It's too dangerous to leave things without being smoothed over."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Part of Adam McCaw's job with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry 7th Special Forces Group was to train Afghanis to be police officers. He had to fire a f...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
Tylor Willis: "The day I got blown up is the first day that comes to mind."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Tylor Willis was a Corporal E-4 who served with the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan in the Battle of Sangin. He was awarded a Purple Heart. While in co...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KALH


  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
Ross Holcomb: "You're not allowed to sit there and not do anything."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Ross Holcomb served with the 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines for four years and was deployed to Fallujah Iraq, and Goullistan, Afghanistan.

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Miles Netzer: "What opportunity would I have ever had without joining?"
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Miles Netzer served with the U.S. Marines from June 2002 through July 2011. He deployed several times to multiple theaters. His parent unit was VMG...

Bought by KALH and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
Tyler Preston: "I knew then that we were going to war."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Tyler Preston joined the Navy on Sept. 14, 1999, and served 11 years as an Aircrew Survival Equipmentman or "Parachute Rigger" and was stationed wi...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Sorn Jessen: "I grew up in Eastern Montana on the Crow Reservation."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Sorn Jessen was attached to the 513th Military Intelligence Battalion out of Fort Gordon, Ga. He deployed with his unit to Camp Doha, Kuwait, in Se...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Warner: "I don't know how many lives were saved by handing them two MREs."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Michael Warner served with the U.S. Marines from 2002 to 2008, deploying to Iraq from 2003 to the end of 2005. His tank unit cleared a large number...

Bought by KALH and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 2
Starting Over: A Refugee's Journey to the US
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: Chali Khanal a refugee from Bhutan, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
The Nepalese Bhutanese people are basically landless after having fled Bhutan. One immigrant tells the story of going from refugee to the US.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
Art In The Real World
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
Huda Sha'arawi
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
Gabrielle Petit
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
Chapter 9 - Facing a World at War
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
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
The 113th Annual Army-Navy Pageant
From: War News Radio
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The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
Sourcing Conflict: Mineral Supply Chains and Human Rights in the Congo
From: Ian Gray
Series: Ceres Sustainability Podcast
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
Marina Raskova
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Noor Inayat Kahn
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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