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From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Statue to fallen soldier Jaswant Singh Rawat up in the Himalaya, Credit: Sandip Roy

October marks the 60th anniversary of the Indo-China war fought in the upper reaches of the Himalaya in 1962. It's not a war that ended in glory fo...

Gandhi at 150

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Gandhi statue at the Ferry Building, San Francisco, Credit: Sandip Roy

Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.

Remembering the Great War in India

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.

Remembering a near disaster: U.S. accidentally drops nuclear bombs on itself And Its Allies

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: A nuclear bomb and its parachute rest in a field near Goldsboro, N.C. after falling from a B-52 bomber in 1961. If it had detonated, it could have instantly killed thousands of people. , Credit: U.S. Air Force

During the Cold War, U.S. planes accidentally dropped nuclear bombs on the east coast, in Europe, and elsewhere. "Dumb luck" prevented a historic c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUSF, Texas Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KPBS and more

Carrots help you see in the dark

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM

Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Gas mask exercise, Scott Field, Illinois.1942. , Credit: Library of Congress

Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...

Mitchell Zuckoff reads from Frozen In Time: An Epic Story of Survival and A Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (5/26)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU

The Bay Area connection to the "Human Secret Weapons” of World War II

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Frank and Ginger Masuoka at the Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center, Credit: Melanie Young

If you read your history books, you might think that America’s involvement in the war against Japan began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decemb...

Back to War

From: Traveling 219

A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

The Forgotten Circassians

From: Julia Barton

Caption: Youth dance troupe at the Circassian Benevolent Association in Wayne, NJ., Credit: Julia Barton

As far as he knows, Zack Barsik is the first Circassian born in the US. He grew up in Passaic County, New Jersey, where Barsik’s father emigrated f...

Six Years In

From: War News Radio

Caption: A bomb hits the Information Ministry in Baghdad at the start of the US invasion in March 2003., Credit: Associated Press

News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

All Politics is Local

From: War News Radio

A close look at the state of local government in Iraq.

Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio

CONSCIENCE OR COUNTRY?

From: Voices of Our World

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...

Burj el-Shemali Refugee Camp

From: Stefan Christoff

A radio documentary on Burj el-Shemali refugee camp, located on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre and home to upwards of 20 000 P...