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Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: https://unsplash.com/photos/2x-dj_r0H9Y, Credit: Jeremy Bezanger
This is a Veterans Day program. "Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]" is a musical program containing Patriotic Songs and music praising the ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:48
Episode 73: Not Healed, But Healing
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Brandon Kuehn survived the Iraq War. But after he got home, he struggled with nightmares and addiction. Then he found trail running…and the Pacific...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans Day Soldier Story: Bob Buntin
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bob Buntin, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:48
Private Price's War: The Long, Long Trail
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Walter Price, 314th Combat Engineers
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:19
Six Degrees of Separation
From: Anjali Alwis
Series: Six Degrees of Separation; the journey of a Syrian refugee
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I worked in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece this summer and put together an hour long piece meant to humanize the refugee crisis. Listen to...

Bought by KVSC, KPIP-LP, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 55:26
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 12: Home On The Waves With A Seafaring Cowboy
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded a ship bound for Europe…along with 800 cows.

Bought by KRZA and KUER


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 2
The Triangle Seagals
From: Mary Samouelian
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The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 36:27
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
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
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
On the same wavelength
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3
The One Who Can Handle a Hot Radio Tube
From: Chris Haddlesey
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A WWII Veteran's story of mishaps and machinery

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
It's Not About the Fish (New Version)
From: Jessica Murri
Caption: George Nickel was once in an armed standoff with the Boise Police Department. Today, he fly fishes. , Credit: Jessica Murri
Six military vets go fly fishing in Southwestern Idaho, to cope with the war that left their lives in ruins. This version has been edited with the ...

Bought by KISU, KKWE Niijii Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 3
Tinnitus
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 1
Rush Hour
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "Gridlock" (6/25/10): War News Radio reports on commuting in Baghdad.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 07:41
A Year in the Life
From: War News Radio
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A compilation of the most compelling stories that we've heard over the past year in our series, "A Day in the Life".

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Love the US of A
From: Joe Dorocak
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This song was written hoping that soon, no American grandchildren will have to die in Iraq. Here is my neighbor's review: "I laughed and cried at t...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
Persian Love Story
From: Joanna Feldman
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A love story emerging from the Iranian revolution

  • Added: May 16, 2008
  • Length: 08:06
Black Gold
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week, War News Radio presents the second of a series of shows that will explore the big questions still unanswered about the situation in Iraq...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Apr 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
Riding out the Storm
From: War News Radio
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We hear from Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan and look at how their lives are changing.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Mar 07, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
In the Name of Service
From: War News Radio
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This week on War News Radio, we hear the voices of U.S. forces and the individual stories of the people serving in Iraq.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Police in Training
From: War News Radio
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This week on War News Radio, Police in Training. We find out about the slow progress that has been made towards assembling Iraq's security forces.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Feb 08, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2