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The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This time on P...

Bought by WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Kathy Boylan of the Catholic Workers House Criticizes the Radical Pope
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Kathy Boylan
Unspun talks with Kathy Boylan of the Catholic Workers House in Wash. D.C. about the Radical Pope, Pope Francis, and his visit to America and the D...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:03
Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz
From: Sue Zizza
Caption: Poster Art, Credit: Käthe Kollwitz
(The entire 1 hour (52:19) show is available starting on October 13, 2015) In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, Midsummer Sound Comp...

Bought by KUNM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KICI Iowa City, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 9
Nathan Hale and the 4th Blood Moon
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:48
War Widows
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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In our everyday lives we often see veterans wearing their hats designating where and when they served. What we never see, from any war, is the wido...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:01
We've Never Been The Same: A War Story
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Some of Delta 187 Rakassans
We've Never Been The Same: A War Story is the story of one night of battle and the decades of recovery that followed. Produced by Adam Piore and Ja...

Bought by KRWG, KUHF, WFDD, WORT, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 107
"WOMEN Write About WAR" -- five readings (M-F)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2015
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Our Special for Memorial Day week: 5 female authors. For Monday, Dava Guerin reads about a wounded woman, a vet from the Afghanistan theater, from ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
Direct Action with Mauro Oliviera at the Creech AFB Drone Protest
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett - Host of Unspun
Unspun features Direct Action activists protesting Drone Warfare and "extra-judicial" murder by the Obama administration, at Creech Air Force Base ...

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
From: Johnna Kerres
Caption: In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
This radio program features veterans of all eras beginning with World War II to the present day. Nine veterans share their recollections of before,...

Bought by 'The Sea' and WDSE


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:34
  • Purchases: 2
World War II - Hampton Roads Heroes
From: WHRV
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Interviews with WWII Veterans radio companion piece to The War

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:03
Unspun Discusses Guantanamo Diary with Ms. Nancy Hollander, Mohamedou Slahi's Lawyer
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Nancy Hollande
This Saturday on Unspun we are talking with Ms. Nancy Hollander. Ms. Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer and past pr...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
1968 Bullock Museum
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
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Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special -2014 (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Some compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of our many seasons of programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-vio...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Aspen Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Bombs drop at Brookings, Oregon
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
The Peacemaking Chapters of The Roosevelts
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:49
  • Purchases: 6
When Oregon's Fort Stevens was shelled during WWII, Why didn't They Fire Back?
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: The 10-inch guns at Battery Russell that weren't fired.
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...

Bought by WSLR and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 2
Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 4
Taps and Air Raid Siren - Tonal
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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Two haunting sounds that are powerful, and have an unusual quality when heard together.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:06
War and Musical Dada
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 7
WWI: Remaking Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did composers react to the violence of The First World War? We're listening to musicians who defined a modern era.

Bought by KPIP-LP and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
Grace Notes
From: Capital Public Radio
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World War I was a real blow to the European musical community. They were utterly unprepared for the war’s cruelty, and composers found it difficult...

Bought by WVTF, KHNS, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Conscientious Objectors in the Volunteer Military
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we look at conscientious objection to military service, which, in the United States, some presume doesn’t co...

Bought by KUOW and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conscientious Objectors in the Volunteer Military
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we look at conscientious objection to military service, which, in the United States, some presume doesn’t co...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Studs Terkel: Born to Live
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Born to Live is Studs Terkel’s remarkable Prix Italia-winning audio collage program (produced with Jim Unrath) that first aired in 1962 and serves ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WWNO, WCQS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 56:45
  • Purchases: 9

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