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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 Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 2
What was a nice Jewish grandmother doing flying into ISIS territory, preparing for a secret mission? After Lisa Miara's family suffered through ter...
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 31:56
With 65 million living as refugees and migrants, the world has never had more forcibly displaced people than it does now. In this 45-minute documen...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 48:05
The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...
- Added: Jul 17, 2016
- Length: 36:27
Bobby, Wacky and Coletti podcast from “Tesla’s Revenge” (which is the name of Coletti’s boat) docked in Treasure Island, Florida, with Tiffany, a f...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 01:34:52
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
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
Part of a series that asks U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan what they have to carry around with them every day—from the physical to the emotion...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KKWE Niijii Radio, KHNS and more
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 13
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
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
A single mom decides to marry her best friend before his deployment to Iraq.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 03:43
Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 t...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 30:02
Gary Barnes' father gave him one thing in life: the wish to be a sailor. Gary achieved his dream and became a Chief Petty Officer for the Navy, whe...
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 3
Maine has one of the most diverse immigrant populations of any state in the country. Synforose Rugema came to America as a refugee from the Congo i...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 3
Short documentary collage of voices recorded in St. Louis during World War II on a Wilcox-Gay Recordio. The Greatest Generation carries on, as reme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2009
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A family of Bukharan Jewish dancers and musicians escape war-torn Tajikistan. They move to an apartment near Queens BLVD, and go from dodging bulle...
Bought by Remix Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2009
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 1
a sonic memorial to the healing power of art
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KTNA, NPR Illinois, KDNK and more
- Added: Sep 27, 2008
- Length: 26:44
- Purchases: 10
