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RESISTANCE: THEY FOUGHT BACK -- Paula Apsell Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Paula Apsell talks uncovering history, creating unity, and depicting Jews saving Jews.

Storycorps MVI: Diane Evans and Edie Meeks

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Diane Evans and Edie Meeks at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., Credit: Courtesy of Diane Evans

Diane Evans and Edie Meeks were nurses at the height of the Vietnam War in 1969, and they remember serving next to the front lines--and their decad...

Constant Wonder - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Scheming in the commandant's dress shop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Shelf Discovery: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the women of a small town as they work together to help the wartime effort in author Jennifer Ryan’s ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Top of Mind - Surviving Genocide, Dark Fish, Love the Wasp

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1: The cat the helped a Muslim teen survive the Serbian siege of the 1990s; Topic 2: Some of the darkest-skinned creatures on the planet live...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KOWS, WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSTK

StoryCorps Historias and Military Voices Initiative: Connie Doria Rocha

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Connie Doria Rocha talks about her experience as a civilian mechanic during WWII, and how that taste of independence changed her life.

Bought by WYAP

Top of Mind - Holocaust Hero, Short Round, Maternal Mortality

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1 - Holocaust Hero; Topic 2 - Short Round; Topic 3 - Maternal Mortality

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP

Susan Kotsy

From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces

World Pieces host Jason Kladiva interviews Susan Kotsy. Ms. Kotsy grew up in Budapest, Hungary during Nazi and Russian occupation, escaped and came...

Salem Bewitched

From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds

Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky

To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix

StoryCorps: Denise Baken, Richard Yingling, and Christian Yingling

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Denise Baken (center) with her children Christian Yingling (left) and Richard Yingling (right) at their StoryCorps interview in Baltimore, MD on August 23, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.

Denise Baken tells her children about her family's legacy of military service—and the battles faced along the way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV

StoryCorps: Flip Cuddy and Christine Cuddy

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Susan Ahn Cuddy (far right) at the US Naval Air Station in Florida in 1943., Credit: Courtesy of Flip Cuddy.

Flip and Christine Cuddy remember their mother, Susan Ahn Cuddy, a Navy gunnery officer who served in World War II.

FOR SAMA -- Waad al-Kateab, Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, and Edward Watts Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Hamza al-Kateab, Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts, San Francisco, CA 7/22/19, Credit: Andrea Chase

Waad al-Kateab, Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, and Edward Watts talk responsibility, respect, and getting political.

StoryCorps: Etaine Raphael and Adele Levine

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

For nearly a decade, Adele Levine and Etaine Raphael worked side by side to ensure soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan would be able to na...

Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WVBI-LP

StoryCorps: Kristin Glasgow and Karen Offutt

From: StoryCorps

Caption: Kristin Glasgow (left) and Karen Offutt (right)

In the late 1960s, Karen Offutt was a patriotic teenager who got chills whenever she heard the “Star-Spangled Banner.” At 18, she dropped out of nu...

Bought by WDBM, WVBI-LP, and WEZU

StoryCorps: Armeen Hamdani and Talat Hamdani

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Talat Hamdani (left) and Armeen Hamdani (right)

Talat Hamdani remembers her son, a NYPD cadet who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was wrongfully accused of having terrorist links.

StoryCorps MVI: Jenna Henderson and Laurie Laychak

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Jenna Henderson (right) and Laurie Laychak (left)

Jenna Henderson came to StoryCorps to remember her husband, Army Sgt. First Class Chris Henderson, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2007.

Bought by WTIP and WEZU

The Triangle Seagals

From: Mary Samouelian

The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...

Yemeni family straddles border between Oakland and homeland

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

There’s been a lot of news about refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan and their attempts to enter Europe, but we hear far less about people t...

StoryCorps: Jim Stockdale and Jasey Schnaars

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Vice Admiral James Stockdale was a Vietnam War POW for more than seven years. His son, Jim, recalls the family’s difficult wait for his father’s re...

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio

StoryCorps MVI: Marjorie Finlay, Nathan Williams, Denise & Shane Clancy

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

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

StoryCorps: Lisa Torello and Tony Cistaro

From: StoryCorps

Sgt. Major Lisa Torello remembers her father, Sgt 1st Class Carl Torello, who was killed in Vietnam in 1965, with Tony Cistaro, who was with her fa...

Finding Peace: From Ethiopian Refugee to United States Citizen

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

Nigisti Hailemariam has been in the United States for over 20 years; she has two kids, a stable job, and a red Honda outside her three bedroom apar...