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StoryCorps: Nick Bennett and Dan Miller
From: StoryCorps
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Marine Staff Sergeant Nick Bennett and Sergeant Major Dan Miller remember a deployment during the Iraq War that changed their lives.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
Incident at Vichy/The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A dark tale from Arthur Miller, plus a docudrama about the brilliant, controversial physicist

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 8
Everybody Crying Mercy
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Terrorist atrocities in Israel, Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Seeds sown, reaped, then sown again. A conversation with Can...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:42
Subversive Element
From: David Kattenburg
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Uranium-235: A filthy subversive element. Listen up about uranium mining in Niger.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 42:39
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
The Augurs: Women of an Age
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Eleanor Wilner
THE AUGURS: WOMEN OF AN AGE is a special public poetry reading, featuring a group of women poets, all over the age of 60, sharing their work and vi...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pressure
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The fate of the free world rests on a single decision about the weather.

Bought by KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 18
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: Alan Amen and Ron Amen
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alan and Ron Amen at their StoryCorps interview in Dearborn, Michigan on August 10, 2012., Credit: Erin Dickey for StoryCorps.
Ron Amen speaks with his brother, Alan, about their bond, and how it persevered even after Ron was drafted in the Vietnam War.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
A Call to Words: Veterans & Why They Write
From: New Letters on the Air
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This classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR commemorates Veterans Day with Vietnam veterans and poets, Bill Bauer and H.C. Palmer. Recorded in front audien...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNJR, KVSC, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Shortcut Back to 9/11-The 20th Anniversary Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Remembering 9/11
A look back on September 11, 2001 on the 20th Anniversary with new music and additional material on Afghanistan, small and just wars and "The War O...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 1
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
Hidden in plain sight: Rebecca Gordon on Torture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We think of enhanced interrogation as being a new invention - a kind of torture in use only since 9/11. But Rebecca Gordon disagrees. In this episo...

Bought by WVAS and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mimi's Guide
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Frances Conroy stars as the muse of a poet who's consumed by the past

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KCHW, WNJR, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 13
War and Peace
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Lock and load! So much music, like literature, is about conflict and resolution. This week we take a wind band tour of the extremes of war and pea...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 4
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
John William Finn by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: John William Finn
Chief Petty Officer John William Finn was stationed at Naval Base Kaneohe Bay on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was att...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 18:46
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lan Cao lived through some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War before starting her life over in the United States. She tells her daughter w...

Bought by WEZU and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
Cartoonist Evans Discusses The London Refugee Crisis
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Cartoonists Kate Evans and Sarah Glidden are participating in Indiana University’s Themester program, “Diversity, Difference, Otherness — A Present...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 08:32
189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Calling Out the Ancestors: My Family's Lingering Civil War Ghosts
From: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
Requiem... and time for hope
From: James Branum
Series: BSR Magazine Show
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A commentary/editorial/music mix for the US American change of Imperial Power, first aired in January 2017.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 14:59
StoryCorps: George Rincon and Yolanda Reyes
From: StoryCorps
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At the beginning of the Iraq War, nearly 40,000 members of the United States military were not citizens. Army Private First Class Diego Rincon was ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Your Call: California's Native American genocide
From: KALW
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A conversation with UCLA historian Benjamin Madley about his groundbreaking and heartbreaking book, "An American Genocide: The United States and th...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 2
Wolf Boys - Mexican Cartel Assassins
From: W F Strong
Series: GOOD BOOKS RADIO
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An interview with Dan Slater about his best-selling nonfiction work about American teenagers who worked as assassins for the Las Zetas cartel in La...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 1
1.1 - High Wood (Prologue)
From: Adin Dobkin
Series: War Stories
Caption: War Stories Logo, Credit: Adin Dobkin
In Northern France on July 14th, 1916, a cavalry unit from Hyderabad made what most consider to be the final cavalry charge of World War I before t...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 37:31