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Legacies of WWII (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Legacies of WWII (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by WTJU, WNED Buffalo, KEDT, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Legacies of WWII (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Legacies of WWII (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: Richard Hoy and Angel Hoy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Richard and Angel Hoy in Seattle, WA on Feb. 22, 2022., Credit: Courtesy of Richard Hoy.
U.S. Army veteran Richard Hoy tells his daughter, Angel, about serving as a medic during the Vietnam War.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we look...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 34:47
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCPN, WCPN, WCNY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 13
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people...

Bought by WKSU, WCPN, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 6
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
Getting into Vietnam (half)
From: With Good Reason
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-In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, we explore how the self-image of America was shattered in Vi...

Bought by KUNM and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Trapped on the Wrong Side of History
From: Richard Paul
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A Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan in WWII

Bought by KGOU, KUER, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WCPN and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 6
Monica's Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Deoli Internees
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Deoli Internees in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
JFK: Unsung War Hero
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: OCTOBER, 2015
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Author William Doyle reads the first of two passages from his book, PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy.....

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Hiroshima Survivor / Miep Gies talks of Anne Frank / Foreign Aid
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Soh Horie/Miep Gies/Jamie Drummond
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...

Bought by WXDU and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 2
'In Good Conscience': Shizue Seigel And An Exhibit At The National World War II Museum
From: WWNO
Caption: Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, Credit: Ansel Adams
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
India's Techies Hitchhiked on the Way to the Moon
From: Mahi Palanisami
Caption: First prime minister of India and science visionary, Jawarhalal Nehru!
Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:42
National Debt
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Women at the Tulle Lake War Relocation Camp, circa 1942. , Credit: Bob Bobster.
Two survivors of Japanese American internment describe how they went from being seen as model citizens to being seen as the enemy. In the story of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 9
When the Spam hit the fan in Nam
From: Rich Halten
Caption: House in Hue where GI broadcasters made their stand
A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 5
Bridging the Shores: The Hmong-American Experience
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Sound-rich documentary about Hmong-Americans living in the U.S.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WESM 91.3 FM, KWIT, KHEN-LP, KUNM and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a... Fugo Balloon?
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Up, up and away with Japan's littlest-known WWII weapon

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:41
This I Believe - Yinong Young-Xu
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Yinong Young-Xu believes he must guard against exercising the brutality he learned as a child in China.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 4
Tejidos Culturales 12-Japanese-American Community in the Valley
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program looks at the Japanese-American Community in the San Luis Valley and how they arrived.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Music in the Killing Fields: Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Cambodian Musician Daran Kravanh says music saved his life during the Kiling Fields.

Bought by The Story, KGLT, and KZSC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2005
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3