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Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
It's Your War Too, Miss and Mrs. America
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Caption: Producer Kate Murray teaching Sherry Holdridge about audio editing., Credit: Texas Folklife
Sherry Holdridge speaks out about her grandmother's experiences during WWII, polio, and the store Sherry opened, Oh Say USA. This story was created...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Tom Brokaw
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Journalist and author Tom Brokaw talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Learning Lessons from History to Make Peace Today
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Sarah Holtz speaks with three historians who warn against the danger of historical amnesia to p...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Learning Lessons from History to Make Peace Today
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Sarah Holtz speaks with three historians who warn against the danger of historical amnesia to p...

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


  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps MVI: Sarah and Gilbert Seltzer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: A young Gilbert Seltzer in uniform in October, 1942, after graduating from Officer Candidate School in Fort Belvoir, VA., Credit: Courtesy Gilbert Seltzer
104-year-old Gil Seltzer speaks with his granddaughter, Sarah Seltzer, about what it was like to be part of a top-secret deception unit in World Wa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
StoryCorps: Russ and Walter Dixon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Walter Dixon and Russ Dixon at their StoryCorps interview in Waynesville, Missouri on June 26, 2019., Credit: By Dupe Oyebolu for StoryCorps
When Walter Dixon fought in the Korean War, he was captured and kept a prisoner of war for more than two years. The whole time, he was believed to ...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
Instead of medals, the Pentagon is offering certificates to vets who were exposed to radiation
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Observers watch an explosion during Operation Hardtack in 1958. 35 nuclear tests were conducted in the Pacific, exposing troops to radiation., Credit: Nevada National Security Site
The new certificate recognizes as many as 550,000 veterans who were exposed to nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and 1992. But the certificates le...

Bought by KRPS, KRZA, KPBS, KPCC, Texas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 6
Pam Jenoff, author of "The Lost Girls of Paris"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Pam Jenoff about her latest novel "The Lost Girls of Paris"

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:46
In 1969, the military thought it had eliminated racism in its ranks. Then troops began rioting
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Black and white Marines served side by side during the Vietnam War, as seen in this 1966 photo of a firefight with the Viet Cong. But racial tension was not uncommon throughout the armed services., Credit: U.S. Marine Corps
Camp Lejeune, N.C. was the first of several bases to experience racial violence during the Vietnam War. It led to major reforms in military racial ...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, KPBS, WUSF, Colorado Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 5
The Big Pond #36: Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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On June 24, 1948, the Soviet military administration officially cut off roads and rails into West Berlin in the Berlin Blockade, isolating it from ...

Bought by KWMR, KICI Iowa City, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 3
Booktalk: Retired Naval Aviator Dan Pedersen’s “TOPGUN. An American Story”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
Catholic Peacemaking Icons (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Catholic Peacemaking Icons
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
S2 E5 Welcome To Vietnam
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 35:44
Seabrook at War
From: David Cohen
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Documents a little-known chapter of the homefront during World War II, and chronicles four generations of a powerful New Jersey family led by a pat...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 53:15
The Civil War Off The Battlefield (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Little-known stories about the ships, soldiers, and animals that transformed the United States during the Civil War.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
The Civil War Off The Battlefield (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Little-known stories about the ships, soldiers, and animals that transformed the United States during the Civil War.

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB), WJCU and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Ben Macintyre, author of "The Spy and the Traitor"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Ben Macintyre about his book "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
Airborne Hero
From: Kathleen Polanco
Caption: U.S. Military service members are represented by white headstones for the men that lost their lives during World War II at the American Cemetery, Normandy, France; June 2, 2015. This is the 71st Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy remembering th, Credit: (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Berner/Released)
A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, one of the most highly decorated divisions in the U.S. Army, didn’t understand what it meant to be air...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KRZA, KYUK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 7
Reflecting on an IED
From: Levingston Lewis
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“Getting blown up was one of the best things that has ever happened to me.”

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KYUK, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps Military Voices: Jack ReVelle and Karen ReVelle
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Munitions expert Jack ReVelle remembers the aftermath of January 24, 1961, when a U.S. military plane accidentally dropped two hydrogen bombs into ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:52
The Big Pond #21: What’s a Sister City Really?
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #20: Hessian Barracks in Maryland
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 23:47

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