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pioneer - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "pioneer"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:35
C'est la Guerre
From: David Grimes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Musical setting of quotes from Lyndon Johnson, William Fulbright and Wayne Morse regarding the War in Vietnam.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Back to Iwo Jima: Navajo code talkers return
From: Ashley Gross
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Four Navajo veterans return to the site of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Mairead Maguire: 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner [Peace Talks Radio Series]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire recalls her peace work in Northern Ireland and in this 2006 interview talks with host Carol Boss ab...

Bought by KCNP, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KDUR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2006
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 4
Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
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Four Vermont soldiers talk about life in German prison camps after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge, and the life-changing effects of this ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRVO Public Media, PRX to iTunes, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 17
This I Believe - Miles Goodwin
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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NPR listener Miles Goodwin discovered a belief in kindness when he was soldier returning from Vietnam.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 4
War and Medicine: Reflections of Battlefield Healers
From: Aaron Henkin
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Battlefield surgeons and nurses reflect on the ironies of their work as healers in a war zone

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
The Gilchrist Brothers
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Interview with Congressman Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland and his brothers, three of whom served in Vietnam.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Woody's Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Slice of LIfe - Roland Thompson and Diane Bahrenberg
From: Vermont Public
Series: VPR Presents StoryCorps in Vermont
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Diane Bahrenburg talks with her neighbor and friend, 89-year-old retired dairy farmer Roland Thompson.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:44
WHEN A MASSACRE BECOMES A TOURIST ATTRACTION - COMMENTARY
From: KRCC-FM
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It?s too soon to say how America?s war in Iraq will be remembered.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2006
  • Length: 06:31
Wandering Souls
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Story of a Vietnam Veteran's return of personal effects taken from the body of the N. Vietnamese soldier he killed.

Bought by WKMS, KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, KSUT and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Peace, War, & Indifference
From: Andrew Reissiger
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One-hour, newscast compatible program that examines the possibilities of peace in our world today by looking at excerpts from important presidentia...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KQED, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHRV, WETA and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2006
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 6
Hunger in America
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Host Mike Cuthbert talks with three experts about hunger among older Americans and how it can be stopped. Then, Holocaust resisters and their stori...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:00:09
Hollywood's Prayer
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man with a positive view of the world and people, seeks to understand why we do harm to each other.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:26
RN Documentary: A War Requiem
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The psychological problems of soldiers during and after World War One.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, Radio New Zealand, KRZA, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo
From: Helen Borten
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The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF, WITF, WABE and more


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 34
Active Voice Radio Interview: Mark Klempner- Dutch Holocaust Rescuers
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Mark Klempner is the author of The Heart Has Reasons- Holocaust Rescuers and their Stories of Courage. We explore Mark's process of meeting the Res...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2006
  • Length: 19:19
Evergreen interview w/ DANIEL SCHWARZ author of fascinating book "Imagining the Holocaust"
From: Out of Bounds
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Schwarz discusses his groundbreaking book "Imagining the Holocaust"

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
Healing Iraq: Part II
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the War in Iraq

Bought by CKMO and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
From WWII to Iraq War: U.S Veterans on War and Peace
From: Miae Kim
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Four U.S. veterans share their views on war. An eighty-three year-old World War II veteran, two Vietnam War veterans, and a Gulf War veteran tell ...

Bought by KZYX, Marfa Public Radio, New England Public Media, and WDNA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2006
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 4
March 2: Great Celebrities/ Mikhail Gorbachev ( in Russian)
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
War Memorials: Who Controls the Past?
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Who decides how to commemorate sites of wars and what do those monuments say about us?

  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:46
Loch Lomond
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Series: What's in a Song
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British pianist Leslie Howard tells the story behind this familiar Scottish classic.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2005
  • Length: 04:37

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