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A man in his early forties decides to take a job in Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
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Marine reservist Nina D’Amato used to teach in East Palo Alto as part of Teach for America and served as assistant principal at AP Giannini Middle ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:38
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Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert Tsutakawa spoke with his daughter Susan Tsutakawa in the San Francisco StoryCorps booth
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Pentagon is building a $12 million tent city at the site of a once proposed $125 million or more military compound for staging war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Credit: Department of Defense
News and features from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Iraqi workers stack up bricks in a brick factory on the outskirts of Najaf, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Ahmed Altaie, a reserve soldier from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was kidnapped while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
We hear about an American soldier missing in action.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 09:12
Caption:  Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media. , Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Eric Cota purchases his copy of the popular video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", Credit: Associated Press
From Behind the Screens, on November 5, 2010: War News Radio investigates how video games portray warfare and their impact of player's perceptions ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 07:30
Caption: Eric Cota purchases his copy of the popular video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Umaganda 2009 with Rwandans and US Embassy personnel, Credit: US Embassy -- Kigali
Today we go to Rwanda to see how the population spends the last Saturday of every month. And how those Saturdays have created surprising moments of...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Private First Class Bradley Manning is currently our nation’s most notorious whistleblower–the man many believe was behind Wikileak’s largest discl...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
Caption: Bollywood posters for sale in Afghani store., Credit: AP
From "Bollywood Across Borders" 9/10/2010: War News Radio reports on the Afghans' love for Bollywood cinema.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:47
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From "Unfinished Business" 8/6/2010: War News Radio reports on the gradual withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, and what this means for Iraqis ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:11
Caption: An IED next to an American tank in Iraq, Credit: Associated Press
From "The Invisible Threat" (7-9-2010): War News Radio reports on Improvised explosive devices that have been the biggest cause of US casualties in...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
Caption: Camp at Ft. Monroe, VA, Credit: Library of Congress
A conversation about the contingency of one state's role in the Civil War.

Bought by KRUA and WRPI


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
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A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.

Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
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From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio goes looking for comedy in Iraq, and finds out what makes a good Iraqi joke.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
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Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 08:00
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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

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 09:01
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Approaching the April 16 anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings, this show explores how healing can start to take place after atrocities, near and ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:19
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
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RED CRYSTAL PALACE is a mobile tent with a crystal ball inside, operated by a nurse seeking predictions about the future from people on the street.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:26