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On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
- Length: 30:30
On today’s show we’re talking about, “Aftershocks,” both literal and figurative, related to events that came back to shake us after their initial d...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Bob Kustra interviews Ben Macintyre about his book "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: 30:10
An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 30:01
Munitions expert Jack ReVelle remembers the aftermath of January 24, 1961, when a U.S. military plane accidentally dropped two hydrogen bombs into ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 02:52
John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."
Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Dec 08, 2018
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 3
In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day war, a Palestinian lawyer and two Israeli army reservists nearly brokered a peace agreement that could ha...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 1
Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:39
50 years after the infamous Battle of Hue, a Vietnam vet talks about living with memories you have no choice but to carry.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
"If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:25
The story of the role of radio in the Vietnam War — with actual airchecks of North Vietnamese propaganda, Armed Forces radio and underground GI bro...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 1
Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 27:50
Three true stories told live from a London stage. In this programme:
* Sudeshna escapes war-torn Uganda thanks to her father
* Alix Fox reveals ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 07, 2016
- Length: 30:43
- Purchases: 1
Brown discusses his bestseller about an underdog American rowing team and their quest for gold at at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 29:47
When Bad Guys don't always win, we can cheer: Author Kevin Fortuna reads from his story collection, The Dunning Man. Have you ever taken bold actio...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 15:47
- Purchases: 2
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 26:31
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
Gettysburg is a classic program from the CBS Radio Workshop that's perfect for the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought from J...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 24:29
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 3
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 08:57
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
From "Unfinished Business" 8/6/2010: War News Radio reports on the gradual withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, and what this means for Iraqis ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 07:11
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 29:00
