PRX - Pieces for Topic: War
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Uncover the layers of sacrifice, courage, and unity at the heart of America's story through the historic battlefield of Gettysburg and the inspirin...
- Added: Feb 25, 2024
- Length: 10:28
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
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2023
- Length: 59:36
- Purchases: 6
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
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
Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 4
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR
- Added: Dec 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...
Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Aug 29, 2017
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 16
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
The colonial militias played an important role in the struggle for independence, but then, as now, not without some misunderstanding.
- Added: Apr 16, 2009
- Length: 02:30
"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.
Bought by The PRX Podcast
- Added: May 11, 2008
- Length: 19:31
- Purchases: 1
1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire recalls her peace work in Northern Ireland and in this 2006 interview talks with host Carol Boss ab...
Bought by KCNP, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KDUR
- Added: Oct 24, 2006
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 4
Diane Bahrenburg talks with her neighbor and friend, 89-year-old retired dairy farmer Roland Thompson.
- Added: Sep 01, 2006
- Length: 04:44
