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Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

"Surviving The Bataan Death March" (Narration by the late Senator John McCain) Special Encore Presentation

From: Ronald Duffy

Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)

For 2023-24 "Surviving The Bataan Death March" Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW) Special Encore Presentation Offered as ...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more

A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran

From: Samuel Robinson

Caption: Thien Tran, Credit: Orlando Gili

'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...

Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 26

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour

Two stories about new beginnings.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Surviving The Bataan Death March (Narration by Jack Doepke)

From: Ronald Duffy

Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by WWNO, WITF, WABE, KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Episode 172: Roselle and Michael

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that somethi...

Immigrants Gardens War Death

From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us

Caption: Funeral service in front of Barrett's Market 1942

A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...

Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray

From: Nicki Stein

Caption: Mary D. Williams, Credit: ncstatecapitol.org

Throughout the summer of 2016, this country has been reeling in the wake of profound injustice. As racial tensions swell, is it possible that somet...

Life of the Law #86: Winter of Love

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Caption: John and Stuart celebrate after legally marrying in 2008., Credit: Bella Pictures

Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...

Bought by WJCT

Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeffrey Schmalz

From: Kerry Donahue

Twenty-five years ago, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz ended up in the middle of one of the biggest stories of our time: He had AIDS. His w...

Bought by WFDD, Central Florida Public Media, WNYC, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

Echoes from Rwanda: Twenty Years After the Genocide

From: Barbara Simmons

In April 2014, the world is taking time to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide and to remember the more than 800,000 lives that...

Project #9

From: Joanne DeVault

This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

Wild Journey: The Anne Innis Story

From: Sandy Bourque

When Anne, a young Canadian woman in the 1950’s, is told it’s not possible to study giraffe in the wilds of Africa because she’s a woman, she sets...

All Mixed Up with Martin Luther King Jr.

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place in August 1963, with new mixes featuring Israel Kamakaw...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KVMR, WRIR and more

The Conscience of Chester A. Arthur

From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast

In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...

To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more

Marcel Mangel(Marceau), September 22, 2007

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

Glenn Cunningham, March 10, 1988

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...