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AG 21-22: The Songs That Won The War, 5/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Legacies of WWII (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Legacies of WWII (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by WTJU, WNED Buffalo, KEDT, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Legacies of WWII (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Legacies of WWII (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Pressure
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The fate of the free world rests on a single decision about the weather.

Bought by KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 18
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: Alan Amen and Ron Amen
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alan and Ron Amen at their StoryCorps interview in Dearborn, Michigan on August 10, 2012., Credit: Erin Dickey for StoryCorps.
Ron Amen speaks with his brother, Alan, about their bond, and how it persevered even after Ron was drafted in the Vietnam War.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
2022-04-03 The Doomsday Doctrine
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons—and continually threatening to use them?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Margaret Hastings, the “Shangri-La WAC”
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
Caption: New York State Museum, Credit: New York State Museum
In honor of Women’s History Month, Devin and Lauren highlight a Pomeroy marker in Tioga County and tell the story of Corporal Margaret Hastings, a ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Women's History Month: Changing the Narrative, Women War and Peace II
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Solidarity With Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents secular and religious Jewish music from Ukraine in solidarity with all of the Ukrainian people.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: Richard Hoy and Angel Hoy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Richard and Angel Hoy in Seattle, WA on Feb. 22, 2022., Credit: Courtesy of Richard Hoy.
U.S. Army veteran Richard Hoy tells his daughter, Angel, about serving as a medic during the Vietnam War.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
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Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Putin’s War and its Consequences for World Order
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What motivated Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine? How is the war changing the balance of power between Russia, the US, Europe and China? Does the wa...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 8
EE 22-10: A conversation on the importance of food traditions in times of war and dislocation, 3/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The 2008 Russian war with Georgia holds some striking similarities with today’s conflict in Ukraine.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Elise Hooper's ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC by Elise Hooper (her fourth novel) tells the powerful story of American Army and Navy nurses kept as prisoners for nearly thr...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
Standing With Ukraine
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Standing With Ukraine!, Credit: Shepard Fairey
As Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts an unjustified invasion and starts his own war, We Stand with Ukraine- mixing reactions from around th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
Role of Anarcho-Pacifism in Peace (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Perhaps, you’ve heard of “Pacifism” but have you heard of “Anarcho Pacifism.” What’s the difference between the two? On this edition of Peace Talk...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Thank you message from Veterans
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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
A Call to Words: Veterans & Why They Write
From: New Letters on the Air
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This classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR commemorates Veterans Day with Vietnam veterans and poets, Bill Bauer and H.C. Palmer. Recorded in front audien...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNJR, KVSC, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Robert E. Lee once served as West Point's Superintendent. Should the school still display his portrait?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Dignitaries - including Robert E. Lee's great grandson, Hanson E. Ely III (right) - unveil a portrait of the Confederate general in West Point's library in 1952. The portrait is one of several images of Lee that still are displayed at the military academy, Credit: From the 1952 book "The Sesquicentennial of the United States Military Academy: An Account of the Observance." / U.S. Military Academy
Congress ordered Confederate names and images to be removed from military installations. But what about portraits of Lee before he joined the Confe...

Bought by KUT, Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KMXT, and KRPS


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 5
Bois Forte Veteran Series - George Brown
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1

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