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Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
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Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13
Caption: Richard Tyrone Jones
Three true stories told live from a London stage. In this programme: * Sudeshna escapes war-torn Uganda thanks to her father * Alix Fox reveals ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
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David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
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As a cadet in the Israeli Army, he always did things by the book, but when Yochai Maital falls in love with a girl who's about to leave the country...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Yoram" aiming at one of his soon-to-be crow victims.
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Rima Fakih is most known for winning Miss USA in 2010 as the first Arab and first Muslim to do so. But most people know that surrounding that was ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 25:06
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Storyteller Graham Shelby is thinking about the WWII veterans in his family when he serves as guest of honor at an unusual Christmas party - one he...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 12:29
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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, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3
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It was 1945, Joe Prinster was just hours into his high school diploma when he was told to "pack and be ready to get on the train in the morning...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
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A WWII Veteran's story of mishaps and machinery

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: George Nickel was once in an armed standoff with the Boise Police Department. Today, he fly fishes.  , Credit: Jessica Murri
Six military vets go fly fishing in Southwestern Idaho, to cope with the war that left their lives in ruins. This version has been edited with the ...

Bought by KISU, KKWE Niijii Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: George Nickel was once in an armed standoff with the Boise Police Department. Today, he fly fishes. , Credit: Jessica Murri
Six military vets go fly fishing in Southwestern Idaho, to cope with the war that left their lives in ruins.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Pittsburgh's Raging Grannies, the local chapter of an international activist group of women over 50, protest through song.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 09:16
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Background Music: Serious, deep thought, with groove

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of including Anita Humes and the Essex.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:29
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 2 of Phoenix 20 picks up right where part 1 ended. In this program, executive producer Sister Sue Sanders interviews host Dr. Peter Hilton abo...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 30:21
  • Purchases: 2
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The roles are reversed as Sister Susan Sanders interviews Veteran Matters host Dr. Peter Hilton about his time in the military during the Vietnam W...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Peter Hilton airs the final episode of this series of Veteran Matters. In this episode, Hilton welcomes back every veteran who has appeared on...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 24:43
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Peter Hilton continues the Veteran Matters series with the stories of Chris and Norm, two sailors in World War II who were apart of Operation ...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:28
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Peter Hilton welcomes to the program Bill. Bill is a veteran of the Korean War, and served at the front line of many operations in Korea. They...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Peter Hilton explores how spirituality may have affected the veteran's time in service, and what their experiences were like when they encount...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2