PRX - Pieces for Topic: War
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DeLeon Springs was the site of a Civil War skirmish. It has a strange and troubled history.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:01
Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 02:48:48
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
This radio program features veterans of all eras beginning with World War II to the present day. Nine veterans share their recollections of before,...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 01:41:34
- Purchases: 2
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 03:26
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...
Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 49:32
- Purchases: 4
In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...
Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 26:24
- Purchases: 10
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF and more
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 89
World War Two B-24 bomber pilot veteran Sherman Beard, of Hillsboro, West Virginia remembers flying missions over Europe during the war.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Michael McGee talks about the experience of being a fighter pilot during one of his first missions in the Gulf War, one ...
Bought by PRX Remix, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis, and HowSound
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 06:33
- Purchases: 5
History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 17:01
This hour features four Vermont soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The program weaves together their stories of capture,...
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 56:00
- Purchases: 2
Barack Obama draws a red line in regards to Syria & chemical weapons and this program reflects the tension during the past few weeks mixed with pre...
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 59:31
Reporter Jake Ryan follows the rabbit hole to uncover the truth behind a sandwich and a controversy that's been around since the Vietnam War.
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 2
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Part 2 of Phoenix 20 picks up right where part 1 ended. In this program, executive producer Sister Sue Sanders interviews host Dr. Peter Hilton abo...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 30:21
- Purchases: 2
The roles are reversed as Sister Susan Sanders interviews Veteran Matters host Dr. Peter Hilton about his time in the military during the Vietnam W...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 27:35
- Purchases: 2
Host Peter Hilton airs the final episode of this series of Veteran Matters. In this episode, Hilton welcomes back every veteran who has appeared on...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 24:43
- Purchases: 2
Host Peter Hilton continues the Veteran Matters series with the stories of Chris and Norm, two sailors in World War II who were apart of Operation ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 27:28
- Purchases: 2
