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First World War poetry, with Hugh Dow - Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg

From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium

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

First World War poetry with Dr Kate Macdonald

From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium

Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium

As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

Added: Nov 01, 2012
Length: 54:00

David Abrams, author of FOBBIT

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

During this program, David Abrams talks about and reads from FOBBIT, his novel that has been compared to M*A*S*H and Catch-22.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Sep 26, 2012
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with Veteran and Writer, Ron Capps

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media

Added: Aug 02, 2012
Length: 27:38
Purchases: 2

Muddy Jungle Rivers: Wendell Affield talk about his Vietnam memoir

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords

Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield

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

Stephen Crane - Sport and War

From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day

Author Stephen Crane uses images and descriptions from sport to describe a war he never experienced in his classic novel about the American Civil ...

Bought by KSLU

Added: Jul 02, 2012
Length: 02:33
Purchases: 1

An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

From: Roy Trumbull

During the Civil War a southern civilian is to be executed by being hung from a bridge. What happens or doesn't happen next we won't know until the...

Bought by KUT

Added: Mar 06, 2012
Length: 25:32
Purchases: 1

Veterans in the College Classroom

From: With Good Reason

With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 31, 2012
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 3

From Combat to College

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?

Added: Jan 31, 2012
Length: 29:00

Leopold Samuel Marks, January 15, 2001

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...

Added: Jan 04, 2012
Length: 04:00

A Conversation with Tim O'Brien

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper trut...

Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska

Added: Nov 10, 2011
Length: 29:35
Purchases: 3

Readings about Conflict and Peace, Part 2

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Part 2 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Sep 30, 2011
Length: 30:01
Purchases: 1

Readings about Conflict and Peace, Part 1

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Part 1 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Sep 26, 2011
Length: 30:02
Purchases: 1

The Things They Carried - A Big Read Documentary

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

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WKMS, KMUN, KUER, KPIP-LP and more

Added: Aug 16, 2011
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 8

Voice of Witness sheds light on Burmese police state

From: KALW

Caption: U Agga Nya Na, an activist monk who led an uprising against the Burmese military regime., Credit: Robert Fuller

Last November, hundreds took to the streets of San Francisco to protest the Burmese election. According to the U.S. Census, there are more than 9,0...

Added: Jun 06, 2011
Length: 05:01

Interview with Author Wayne Quist

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords

Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Jun 02, 2011
Length: 17:57
Purchases: 1

The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman

On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public

Added: Mar 21, 2011
Length: 10:14
Purchases: 2

War correspondent Anna Badkhen finds kindness in conflict zones

From: KALW

Caption: Cover of "Peace Meals" by Anna Badkhen

When reporters are sent to cover conflict zones, they focus on doing their job, and getting the story. As any reporter will tell you, it’s never ab...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Mar 06, 2011
Length: 08:16
Purchases: 1

Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls

From: Open Source

This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio

Added: Dec 23, 2010
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 3

A Few Reams of Freedom - Noam Chomsky & C.D. Wright

From: Open Source

We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio

Added: Nov 04, 2010
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 2

The Real Founding Fathers

From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio

The Real Founding Fathers and The Good Solider… this week on Primetime Radio.

Added: Aug 26, 2010
Length: 59:58

Three Cups of Tea

From: War News Radio

From Ground Up (23 April 2010): War News Radio reports on the book Three Cups of Tea.

Added: Apr 23, 2010
Length: 07:35

Interview with Poet Yusef Komunyakaa

From: Elizabeth Austen

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 17, 2009
Length: 16:51
Purchases: 1

WNR: The Iraq War, in Verse

From: War News Radio

From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio looks at the experiences of soldier-poets, who are shaping their memories of serving in the Ir...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio