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More than 20 years after Germans tore down the Berlin Wall, they are still dealing with the stigmas of a formerly divided country.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
This month on War News Radio, "Back to Work ". First, we examine the problem of youth unemployment in Morocco. Then, we look into the persecution ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
To honor the young men who sacrificed their lives in the D-Day invasion, Brigadier General Casey Brower takes young cadets on tours of the American...
Bought by WJCT, Indie3 Radio, KVSC, Radio Catskill, KRZA and more
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 17
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:44
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:49
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 09:53
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 07:46
- Purchases: 1
Martin Blackwell reads Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 01:54
In the early 1940s, the need for Japanese translators in the Pacific was growing. With few soldiers proficient in Japanese, a language school to in...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
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
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
A Generation Putin *extra*: Audio postcard from a military jeep ride in the former Soviet stronghold of Balaklava, Ukraine.
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Matthew White about his book, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things, which documents, analyzes, and ran...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:30
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Dr. James Robertson, the author, professor, and famed historian, on his new book-The Untold Civil War: ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.
Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 01:48
- Purchases: 4
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 1
Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
