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Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
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
Kidnapped in Guatemala
From: Sarah Bromer
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When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2016
  • Length: 17:13
StoryCorps MVI: Marjorie Finlay, Nathan Williams, Denise & Shane Clancy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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As combat roles open to women, we present conversations from those who served when their roles and expectations were defined by gender.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 4
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
StoryCorps: Barry Romo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Bill Branson (L) and Barry Romo (R)
Veteran Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo were born a month apart and grew up together. They both went to Vietnam, only one came home.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 5
Prelude to Summer
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...

  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
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
Carrots help you see in the dark
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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: The Imitation Game
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin cracks the code with Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Harford Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reel Discovery: Unbroken
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin battles through World War II with a former Olympian in director Angelina Jolie's Unbroken.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering WWI by recreating the trenches
From: Sarah Elzas
Caption: Dominique Zanardi shows a wall of shells he has collected, Credit: Sarah Elzas
Le Tommy, in the heart of the Somme battlefields, is more than a restaurant. It has a museum of WWI objects and life-sized replicas of trenches out...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
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 Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
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
Francis Scott Key: Lawyer, Layman, Tone-Deaf Lyricist?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Francis Scott Key (shown here in a portrait by Theodor Horydczak) was far more than just the author of what would become our national anthem., Credit: Library of Congress
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Veterans and Disabilities (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Remember the Veterans
From: John Messmer
Caption: John A. Messmer, Jr. says:
During this time of year remember the veterans.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: :10
  • Purchases: 1
Flying over Europe in World War Two
From: Traveling 219
Caption: Sherman Beard and his B-24 in formation., Credit: Courtesy of Sherman Beard.
World War Two B-24 bomber pilot veteran Sherman Beard, of Hillsboro, West Virginia remembers flying missions over Europe during the war.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
"England to Australia, 1914"
From: Margaret Evans
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This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 26:31
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
Recreating Baltimore's Famous Star Spangled Banner
From: Lauren Ober
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Chances are you’re familiar with Mary Pickersgill’s work, even if her name doesn’t ring any bells. Pickersgill was the Baltimore flagmaker responsi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1