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From War Zone to Peace Work
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

Bought by KSJE and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
From War Zone to Peace Work
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

Bought by WPSU, KUNM, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Catskill, and KUNM


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
War, What Is It Good For? (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bitwa pod Grunwaldem, Credit: Jan Matejko
If we can't end war, what can we learn from the fight? We look at 3 stories of conflict involving mercenaries, radicalized Union generals and the o...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 10
Should the “red line in the sand” as drawn during the previous administration finally be enforced?
From: WFHB
Series: Voices in the Street
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week's edition asks Bloomington residents about the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
Thinking About Denuclearization- What Children Know
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Children's art is an eyeglass into their view. , Credit: Susan Cook
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2017
  • Length: 07:35
Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Museum seeks WWII Navy pilots
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A plane recovered from Lake Michigan, Credit: John Davies
To accompany a documentary screening, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is searching for Navy pilots who trained on Lake Michigan during World...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 4
Peter Bergen, author of "United States of Jihad"
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra interviews CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen about his book investigating America’s homegrown terrorists.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:16
Guilt, Relief, and Responsibility
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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Today’s episode explores the role of guilt in international relief efforts.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Veterans Court Coming to Monroe County
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Nationwide there are more than 21.5 million veterans, many of whom struggle with PTSD, brain injury or trauma, and drug and alcohol addictions. Th...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 07:11
Big Fish, Small Pond; Small Fish, Big Pond: An American Conscience and a Vietnam Remembrance
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The Moving Wall came to Maine not long ago before Memorial Day..., Credit: Susan Cook
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 07:06
Episode 5: From Syria With Baklava
From: The GroundTruth Project
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The epic journey of a group of Syrian refugees brought together by a famous sweets shop called Salloura. Syrian-American correspondent Dalia Morta...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 02, 2016
  • Length: 34:05
  • Purchases: 1
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nidhi Chaphekar, Credit: Ketevan Kardava
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Episode 3: War Reporting: A Love Story
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: Season One: Foreverstan
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Love finds a way even in the darkest places. Tracey Shelton is an Australian war reporter who's spent the past 10 years living on the front lines ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: The Aftermath
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: Season One: Foreverstan
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Where is Afghanistan heading? GroundTruth correspondent Jean MacKenzie assesses the fall of Kunduz, and Charlie Sennott travels along the country's...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: The First Casualty
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: Season One: Foreverstan
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In the first episode of GroundTruth, correspondent Charles Sennott follows the roots of the war in Afghanistan from the 1993 World Trade Center bom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
William McCants: The ISIS Apocalypse
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
The Happiness of the Human Family and Its Familiar Enemy
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:45
The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This time on P...

Bought by WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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How effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This time on P...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KRZA, Aspen Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Effort to "Cure" Violence
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Today, Dr. Gary Slutkin's effort to treat violence like an infectious disease and a conversation with former U.S. intelligence officer Ray McGovern...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
"Fighting Against the Dark" - An Interview with Turkish Activist and Bombing Survivor Ramazan Basar
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Today we bring you an extended interview recorded in Istanbul by longtime Bloomington resident and WFHB correspondent Filiz Cicek. Cicek spoke with...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 13:56
Are we winning the war on drugs? Don Winslow, author of “The Cartel”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Don’s 19th thriller may be fiction, but it’s the truth about our longest war, the war on drugs, especially in all the ways it effects Mexico. To le...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1

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