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This week on the show: who is Russia’s Vladimir Putin really, and what might he be capable of? Ukrainians gear up to fight off invasion. Germany’s ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 58:59
Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which host Justin Angle speaks with economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader cha...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2021
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
We talk with best-selling author Ken Follett about his new novel, Never. It’s a chilling look about how a small international incident could lead t...
- Added: Nov 12, 2021
- Length: 59:05
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 46:34
For more on the renewal and expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, we spoke with a pair of downwinder advocates. Steve Erickson is a...
- Added: Sep 04, 2021
- Length: 17:16
"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 29:59
Judith Ehrlich talks learning lessons, fair use, and the power of words.
- Added: Oct 22, 2020
- Length: 21:19
This week on the show: Europe marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
We meet WWII veterans on the Normandy beaches. Trump's visit to
Europe sparks...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 58:59
This week on the show:
- The murder of a young journalist during a riot sparks outrage in Northern Ireland.
- Environmental activists cause ma...
- Added: Apr 25, 2019
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: we zoom in on North and South Korea. For more than 70 years, the Korean peninsula has been divided. And many hope the two c...
- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 30:00
In September 1941, a hero-celebrity stood before a crowd in Iowa and emphatically stated the words, “America First.” Charles Lindbergh was the spea...
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
At the beginning of World War II, the Roosevelt Administration understood all too well the strategic value of South America.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Vietnam War remains a thorn in the side of America’s history. More than 57-thousand US soldiers died and an untold number of Vietnamese civilia...
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An Iraqi activist shares stories about silence as a form of protection in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 30:30
We’ll explore the sounds that have been evacuated from Iraq, musicians muted by their disappeared audiences and bygone origins.
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Our debut episode, devoted to the topic of speechlessness, introduces you to our host Bahjat Abdulwahed, the “Walter Cronkite of Iraq” living as a ...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 29:52
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 27:48
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: :30
Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe. Christina Psarra, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
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
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
Mercenaries have been with us for a long time, but they haven't gotten any less controversial. One professor thinks its time we learn from the 12th...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 03:29
“Speak softly and carry a big stick” are the words of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. When President Garfield was assassinated two weeks later, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
What defines a nation, or a state? What’s the meaning of sovereignty, and how do communal or religious identity figure into demands for self-deter...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 24:45
