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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 15, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Pro-Trump Insurrectionists Demonstrating on 9/18 Continue to Threaten Demo...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WKPW


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Unbroken Promise
From: Levingston Lewis
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For over 70 years, Sailors of the Pearl Harbor attacks have been unidentifiable. The Defense POW/MIA accounting agency is part of the effort to ide...

Bought by WOUB and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the Secret Language School During WWII, THE FULL PRESENTATION at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:12
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the US Army's Secret Language School During WWII at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
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.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
StoryCorps: James Edward Brown and Michael Cline
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mike Cline and James Edward Brown pose at their StoryCorps interview on April 30, 2019 in Pensacola, FL. By Joseph Vincenza/WUWF.
James Edward Brown was a Navy corpsman working as a surgical tech on the ground during the Beirut Bombing of 1983. The bombing killed 241 U.S. serv...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:44
Concentration Death Camps
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the Nazi concentration camps in German occupied Poland during World War 2 and Polish resistance with Stefan Komar, a New Yo...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
1.1 - High Wood (Prologue)
From: Adin Dobkin
Series: War Stories
Caption: War Stories Logo, Credit: Adin Dobkin
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...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 37:31
StoryCorps OutLoud: Jeff Dupre and David Phillips
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: David Phillips (L) and Jeff Dupre (R)
Jeff Dupre remembers his friend Air Force Tech. Sgt. Leonard Matlovich who appeared on a 1975 cover of Time with the headline, “I Am a Homosexual.”

Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRVS, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 5
The Effort to "Cure" Violence (+ Ray McGovern)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Today, Dr. Gary Slutkin's effort to treat violence like an infectious disease and a conversation with former U.S. intelligence officer Ray McGovern...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Christopher Columbus and the US Navy
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Columbus tricks the Arawaks. History of the US Navy, the Barbary Wars and more...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:56
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
Humankind special: The Christmas Truce
From: David Freudberg
Caption: Wounded young soldier in WW1
Produced in association with WGBH/Boston. On the occasion of its 100th anniverary, we take a moving look at the 1914 Christmas Truce, in which oppo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Interlochen Public Radio, KWIT, KVSC, KWMR and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 48
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
Mitchell Zuckoff reads from Frozen In Time: An Epic Story of Survival and A Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (5/26)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Woman’s War
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian Catherine Clinton discusses gender dynamics on the home front, and the American History Guys consider ways in which the Civil War is dist...

Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 3
Fighting for Liberation
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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The American History Guys discuss the important moral and tactical contributions of African-American soldiers in the Union Army.

Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, Louisville Public Media, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 4
Dr. James Robertson: The Untold Civil War
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Dr. James Robertson, the author, professor, and famed historian, on his new book-The Untold Civil War: ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
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


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 15
Remembrance Day
From: Julie Subrin
Caption: Hillside in Murambi, Credit: Photo by Gregory Warner
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.

Bought by Prairie Public and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 2
Whether you like it or not, it affects you too.
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
A TALE OF TWO CAMPS: Palestinian Identity unravels in exile
From: Don Duncan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
11 minute doc, produced in May 2008

  • Added: Jul 05, 2008
  • Length: 11:50
All Politics is Local
From: War News Radio
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A close look at the state of local government in Iraq.

Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Owners of a Purple Heart
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: Bill Jones
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KRUA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 4