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NL 21-36: Glenn Miller Goes To War with the Army Air Force Band, 8/30/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1942 Glenn Miller broke up his popular big band and joined the military, where he formed a new and even bigger orchestra that included strings, ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
Kabuliwalas
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Poster for "From Kabul to Kolkata" photography exhibition
Even though the touching stories in books and delicious kebabs in tiny restaurants are part of our enjoyment of “diversity,” they are also a remind...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
HUNGER WARD -- Skye Fitzgerald Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Skye Fitzgerald talks small gestures, bearing witness, and the element of hope.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 33:29
FOR SAMA -- Waad al-Kateab, Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, and Edward Watts Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Hamza al-Kateab, Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts, San Francisco, CA 7/22/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Waad al-Kateab, Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, and Edward Watts talk responsibility, respect, and getting political.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 24:18
CRIES FROM SYRIA -- Evgeny Afineevsky
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Evgeny Afineevsky, San Francisco, CA 3/16/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Evgeny Afineevsky talks reconstructing history, getting to Assad, and why he wants Congress to see his film.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:31
Tuned to Yesterday #9
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Tuned to Yesterday
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Tuned to Yesterday #9 Drama Broadcasts include, "CBS Radio Workshop" and "Stars Over Hollywood".

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
IN COUNTRY -- Meghan O'Hara Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Meghan O'Hara, San Francisco, CA 6/5/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Meghan O’Hara talks being focused, special cookies, and why IN COUNTRY is a twist to the side.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 17:37
Whitman at War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
WoodSongs 784: Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Nell Robinson & The Rose of No-Man’s Land
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Folk legend Ramblin' Jack Elliott on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes "King of the Folksingers" Ramblin' Jack Elliott plus Nell Robinson & The ...

Bought by KENW, KLCC, Yellowstone Public Radio, KGLT, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
E-TEAM -- Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang talk mental balance, cultural sensitivity, and images that they can’t shake.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:12
Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall
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
Dogs Help Vets with PTSD
From: WITF
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Learning to train their dogs as service dogs helps Veterans with PTSD deal with their issues in positive ways.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WDBM, WTIP, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 4
Episode Three--The Raging Grannies
From: Margaret Krauss
Series: What What Why: Stories of Life and Living
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Pittsburgh's Raging Grannies, the local chapter of an international activist group of women over 50, protest through song.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 09:16
War Games among the Tipas Porteñas
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Ponys and their men
From old games to old soldiers war remains in our minds

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 1
A Hug on the Way Home
From: Julia Barton
Caption: Constance Carman says goodbye to a soldier., Credit: Julia Barton
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPVL, Troy Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, The Story and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 7
Southern Sudanese in Kenya vote for a new country
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: A pastor at a Southern Sudanese church in a refugee camp in Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Remembrance Day
From: Julie Subrin
Caption: Hillside in Murambi, Credit: Photo by Gregory Warner
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.

Bought by Prairie Public and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Demobilizing Colombian Paramilitaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Edwin Koopman visits a town where young paramilitaries are handing in their weapons and assesses Colombia?s demobilization programme.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:30