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From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Long debunked -- the mythology of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Out of the mushroom clouds, nuclearism's dark expanding circle. And, the world’s latest n...

AFVN: The GI's Companion

From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®

For ten years, the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio served as a lifeline to "home" for the millions who served in Vietnam and southeast Asia.

Bought by KSRQ, KFSK, WABE, WMNR, KCNP and more

20230501: World War II, 5/1/2023

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

We take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity for...

World War II

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

We take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity for...

Bought by KECG, KRSC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK and more

Putin’s Folly: Russia, One Year After the Invasion of Ukraine

From: Mateo Schimpf

Unpacking the psychology of Putin's war games and how it affects Russians fleeing conscription.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City

Escape from Kabul

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this episode, we unpack the war in Afghanistan, the misguided way it began and the catastrophic way it ended.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

HUNGER WARD -- Skye Fitzgerald Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Skye Fitzgerald talks small gestures, bearing witness, and the element of hope.

Gandhi at 150

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Gandhi statue at the Ferry Building, San Francisco, Credit: Sandip Roy

Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.

Wunderbar Together - Two German songs that went around the world

From: Arndt Peltner
Series: Wunderbar Together

Caption: Peat Bog Soldiers / Moorsoldaten

During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...

War of the Welles - the 80th Anniversary Edition

From: john rabe

Caption: Album art for 75th Anniv, Credit: Michael Uhlenkott/Unknown

80 years ago, Orson Welles really did scare the pants off the nation with his radio broadcast "War of the Worlds." This is the backstory, from docu...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and Troy Public Radio

Getting Into Vietnam (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR

Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more

Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

1.1 - High Wood (Prologue)

From: Adin Dobkin
Series: War Stories

In Northern France on July 14th, 1916, a cavalry unit from Hyderabad made what most consider to be the final cavalry charge of World War I before t...

Nathan Hale and the 4th Blood Moon

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

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...

Deadly Divide: Migrant death on the Border

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: One of the few remaining unknown markers left in the county cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas, Credit: Brandon Thibodeaux

Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ra...

Bought by WNJR

"Changi Concert Party"

From: Margaret Evans

In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

The Fighter Pilot

From: Kathy Tu

Caption: Lt. Col. Michael McGee, USAF (Ret.), Credit: Kathy Tu

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Michael McGee talks about the experience of being a fighter pilot during one of his first missions in the Gulf War, one ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis, and HowSound

Fatima Learns to Drive

From: Sarah Bromer

Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio

War Games among the Tipas Porteñas

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad

From old games to old soldiers war remains in our minds

Bought by KWMR

The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman

On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public