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A Great Joy: A Tale From the Heart of America
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Tales From the Heart of America
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Steve Jobs said, "We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?” Running our fingers over those dents connects us to ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:54
"Inside The Statue: The Inside Story...50 Years Later
From: Paul Fischer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
DEC 26TH IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BY VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. THIS IS THE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED E...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 57:50
Elliott Woods - Veteran, Jounalist and Creator of Third Squad
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Elliott Woods, multimedia journalist based in Livingston, Montana. Elliott is a veteran and his work has been published in Out...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 37: What Gets Told
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
Virginia Brackett
From: New Letters on the Air
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Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Benjamin Busch
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author, actor and veteran Benjamin Busch talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Oath of Blood
From: Israel Story
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Within the first days of the First Lebanon War, two families become unfortunately intertwined through the coincidence of their name.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:26
A Gift of Peace
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Jacket Cover, Credit: Hawkeye Publishers
Hindsight is not a good way to view history. Yet, we frequently see our past with an expression of “what if”. On the other hand, even the slightest...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
From War Zone to Peace Work
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

Bought by KSJE and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
A decorated veteran who served 24 years in the U.S. Army talks with his wife for the first time about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
Iraqi Poet & Journalist Duyna Mikhail
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Box: A Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward Schultz
This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Saif Alsaegh - 220
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An Iraqi Poet In Montana. Saif Alsaegh was a young boy living in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 11, 2001. At the time, he and the other members of his...

Bought by KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Part 2 of an interview from our archives with Samuel Pisar
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra and Pisar continue their conversation, including how Pisar rebuilt his life after the end of World War II and his work as an intern...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
Somali artist Aziz Osman paints life, loss, and hope
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
Conscientious Objectors in the Volunteer Military
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we look at conscientious objection to military service, which, in the United States, some presume doesn’t co...

Bought by KUOW and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conscientious Objectors in the Volunteer Military
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we look at conscientious objection to military service, which, in the United States, some presume doesn’t co...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Star Spangled Banner
From: John Messmer
Caption: John A. Messmer, Jr. says:
A reading of the entire Star Spangled Banner.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Edwidge Danticat
From: New Letters on the Air
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Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tony Lin: "You would only join the Marine Corps if you wanted to see action."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Tony Lin served from 2005 to 2013 and was deployed five times, including two Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments and three to Afghanistan. He ser...

Bought by KALH and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Sorn Jessen: "I grew up in Eastern Montana on the Crow Reservation."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Sorn Jessen was attached to the 513th Military Intelligence Battalion out of Fort Gordon, Ga. He deployed with his unit to Camp Doha, Kuwait, in Se...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Syria and Society: Two Takes
From: War News Radio
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War and violence never exist in a vacuum. Intrastate conflict often has far-reaching effects that extend outside a nation’s borders. War News Radio...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2012) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Inspiring and engaging highlights from episodes of Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Young women fro...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1