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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
As the Syrian revolution unfolded over the last year, Syrian-Americans have been glued to YouTube - the primary source of information from the war ...
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
The third and final part of our series examines military sexual post truama and the role that sexual harrasment plays in miltary sex crime.
Bought by WEZU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 3
The second part of our series examines the challanges victims face after being sexually assaulted in the military.
Bought by WEZU and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 2
The first segment of our series examines the challenges that military leaders face in implementing new policies aimed at reducing sex crimes in the...
Bought by WEZU and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 2
Opium, child brides, drug lords and their effect on current life in Afghanistan is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious when we visit with Afghan...
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 29:00
"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 16:29
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 06:13
Imagine you’re an eldery woman from a small village in Bosnia. You’ve witnessed horrors most people could never even imagine, and you’ve been asked...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 02, 2011
- Length: 11:37
- Purchases: 1
In Afghanistan, there are fears that the pending U.S. withdrawal of troops will leave a vacuum for the Taliban to regain control. This could have p...
- Added: Aug 02, 2011
- Length: 07:53
Juggling work and motherhood is always hard, but imagine if you were an admiral in the Navy.
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2011
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 2
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPVL, Troy Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, The Story and more
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 7
A single mom decides to marry her best friend before his deployment to Iraq.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 03:43
As reports of Qaddafi soldiers raping women emerge from Libya, we talk to feminist Gloria Steinem about the root causes of sexual violence against ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 08:01
When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 07:33
Acclaimed Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ("Children of the Taliban") talks with us about the insidious tactics employed b...
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 09:09
Annabelle Abaya, who has served as the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines and founded The Conflict Resolution Group Found...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 07:52
- Purchases: 1
Through the African Union’s Peace and Security Department, activist Stella Sabiiti works with rebels who inflict violence on civilians in conflict ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 07:53
Why would a woman join an armed group? Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana talks to us about how a cycle of violence is much more to blame for women's pa...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 06:46
