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RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: The Jewish Genealogist
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Jonathan Groubert speaks with Dutchwoman Petje Schroeder a Jewish genealogist in the Polish city of Lodz.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
The Story of Ing (Doc) Hay-Frontier Herbalist-feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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The Story of Ing (Doc) Hay is about a frontier herbalist and acupuncturist in John Day, Oregon.

Bought by KZYX, KREV-LP, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 2 – Dearest of Friends
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Second in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Am...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 3 – The Two Republicks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Third in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Ame...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 1 – A Poet in Your Pocket
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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First in series of three programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
Challenges To American Foreign Policy In The Middle East.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Career ambassador Richard Murphy talks about the deterioration of U.S./Arab relations.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:00
In the Shadow of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Archaeologists Sift for Clues
From: Mordechai Twersky
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jerusalem Archaeology Feature

  • Added: May 19, 2005
  • Length: 05:35
A Memento of War
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lessons learned from a grotesque necklace of human teeth.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 03:19
RN Documentary: The Day the World came to an End
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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THE 350TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DELFT EXPLOSION IN 1654.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2004
  • Length: 29:28
RN Special Broadcast on International Law
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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At the request of WBUR, Radio Netherlands has prepared a 60-minute broadcast on International Law pegged to fast moving developments this week in W...

Bought by KVNF, WUFT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 4
Sinking of the Reuben James
From: Adam Allington
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Imaginary Village
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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The Imaginary Village is a story about the meaning of "home" for three generations of Palestinians living in refugee camps.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 18:06
  • Purchases: 3
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Adam Allington
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A small farming community in northern Maine reconnects with it's history as a WWII POW camp

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Volga Boatmen
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The Volga Boatmen, who worked as human beasts of burden hauling barges along Russia's rivers, eventually became folk icons, portrayed in literature...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Exodus '47: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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This is the story of three men who served aboard the Exodus 1947, a Jewish refugee ship that tried to run thousands of holocaust survivors past the...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KWIT, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2004
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 11
Christmas in the Trenches
From: Scott Gurian
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Folksinger John McCutcheon describes a lesser-known chapter in world history, a 1914 Christmas Eve truce between British and German soldiers in the...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTJU, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 29

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