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Witness to Surrender
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Japanese Surrender, Credit: Marion Doss
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 46:57
Howard Zinn - A Memorial
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Howard Zinn’s productive insights into history came to an end with his death in January 2010. This edition of Radio Curious shares a previously not...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:34
Making of the Harvey Milk Bust at City Hall
From: Robynn Takayama
Caption: Bust of Harvey Milk
This segment offers a rare look at the sculpture in San Francisco's City Hall of civil rights leader and local hero, Harvey Milk; its sculptor; an...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Giving Women The Vote
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: Votes For Women!, Credit: Library of Congress
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...

Bought by WWNO, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WSGE and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 9
Inauguration Day 2009
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Political Icons: Donkey and Elephant
From: Gretta Cohn
Caption: In this political cartoon by The Economist resident cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, the donkey and the elephant have no one to blame but each other., Credit: Kevin KAL Kallaugher, The Economist
Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, has been the cartoonist at The Economist for 30 years. He explains how the donkey and elephant came to repre...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Tibetan Refugees Do Crafty Business in Nepal
From: Laura Spero
Caption: At the entrance to the Tashi Palkhiel Tibetan Refugee Camp in Pokhara, Nepal, Credit: Laura Spero
Tibetan refugees have been living in Nepal for over fifty years, and refugee camps are well-established collections of concrete homes. But Tibetan...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
Peace Talks Radio: The Peace Work of John Lennon & Yoko Ono (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: John Lennon + Yoko Ono at Montreal Bed-in (1969), Credit: Ivor Sharp (c) Yoko Ono
In 1969, musician John Lennon and his wife, performance artist Yoko Ono, were among the most high profile peace advocates on the planet. We'll spot...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Half a Life Time Ago
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Dancers at the march for the disappeared, Credit: Beatrice Murch
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 09:39
President Kennedy's legacy in Berlin
From: Dan Tritle
Caption: PRX default Piece image
President Kennedy remembered in Berlin 45 years after assassination.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: JFK's Turn Towards Peace (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with James Douglass, author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters". Douglass makes the case for his theory th...

Bought by KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 20
The Civil War Was A Turning Point
From: The humble Farmer
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The 2008 election will be a turning point

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
"Those CCC Boys"
From: Vermont Public
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It's now 75 years since the first Civilian Conservation Corps camps opened. More than three million men served in the CCC, which changed the Americ...

Bought by WVTF, WRPI, KWMD, KUT-HD, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 23:59
  • Purchases: 5
A TALE OF TWO CAMPS: Palestinian Identity unravels in exile
From: Don Duncan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
11 minute doc, produced in May 2008

  • Added: Jul 05, 2008
  • Length: 11:50
All Politics is Local
From: War News Radio
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A close look at the state of local government in Iraq.

Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Obama on the War in Afghanistan
From: PRX
Series: Barack Obama Addresses Foreign Policy
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This series is an ongoing collection of audio from Barack Obama as he address issues of national security. Throughout the 2008 election this colle...

Bought by WSCS-FM and KNKX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2008
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Willing for Trouble: Profile of Tibetan Poet & Freedom Fighter Tenzin Tsundue
From: The Tibet Connection
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Interview with a poet-activist who is inspiring a new generation of Tibetan youth

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Young American Writer Joins the March to Tibet
From: The Tibet Connection
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An interview about courage, international friendship, and how to break INTO an Indian jail

  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:20
Is This an Exercise?
From: Julie Shapiro
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Apocalyptic tv, the sounds of The End and the quirk (and power) of memory.

Bought by WDBM, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 10, 2008
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 4
CONSCIENCE OR COUNTRY?
From: Voices of Our World
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As the Bush Administration's surge is implemented in Iraq, another type of surge is happening simultaneously. In the past few years the number of u...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
New Orleans Dub (2 years later)
From: Matthew Fidler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a vox-pop music piece telling the tale of New Orleans 2 years after Hurricane Katrina

  • Added: Sep 06, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
Training for Change
From: Hillary Frank
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Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.

Bought by PRX Remix, WSLR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4
Humankind: Meeting Hate With Love -- Stories of King and Gandhi
From: Humankind
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Explorations on the non-violence philosophies shared by King and Gandhi

Bought by KZYX, KUT, KPIK-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2007
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 48
RN Documentary: Modern Day Mongolia
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Mongolia in the 21st century must choose which aspects of modernity and tradition will shape its identity in the 21st century.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFUV


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Tet Offensive
From: Carl Nabozny
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An overview of the Tet Offensive

  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:14

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