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In an interview from our archives, host Bob Kustra talks with the Oscasr-winning actor about his memoir. Kennedy died Feb. 28, 2016.
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 30:30
Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 27:50
(The entire 1 hour (52:19) show is available starting on October 13, 2015)
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, Midsummer Sound Comp...
Bought by KUNM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KICI Iowa City, KUNM and more
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 52:19
- Purchases: 9
Meghan O’Hara talks being focused, special cookies, and why IN COUNTRY is a twist to the side.
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 17:37
A Vietnam War veteran plays the Irish drum to ease his PTSD.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
This week on an all-NEW Snap, amazing stories from people paid to do our dirty work.
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 53:57
When Bad Guys don't always win, we can cheer: Author Kevin Fortuna reads from his story collection, The Dunning Man. Have you ever taken bold actio...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 15:47
- Purchases: 2
It was 1945, Joe Prinster was just hours into his high school diploma when he was told to "pack and be ready to get on the train in the morning...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 01:35
Few people have ever been to Bly, Oregon. Fewer people know the story of what happened at Bly. Here's the story behind the plaque.
- Added: Jul 20, 2014
- Length: 15:01
It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 21:04
- Purchases: 2
Bryan Doerries discusses how bringing Greek tragedies to service members opens up new conversations. [30:31]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 30:34
- Purchases: 1
A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. [28:31]
Bought by KPIP-LP, KBBI Alaska, and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
Cleaning Clothes in the Desert was first published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and was written by UK based writer Benjamin Wolfe. Set i...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 11:27
During the Civil War a southern civilian is to be executed by being hung from a bridge. What happens or doesn't happen next we won't know until the...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 25:32
- Purchases: 1
Peter Headen and his wife, Jacqueline, tell the story of their 40-year courtship.
Bought by WEZU, KBBI Alaska, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 13, 2012
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 3
Ralph Fiennes talks human nature, Shakespeare's bitterness, and military leaders in times of peace.
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 14:17
Playwright and activist Lynn Nottage explains how after interviewing survivors of Congo's civil war in 2004, she was inspired to write "Ruined," wh...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 06:46
A twenty-five year old Marine veteran suffering from PTSD has found peace through making paper from his old uniforms. He's also found his voice...a...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRUA, PRX Remix, KUOW, and Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 04, 2010
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 5
From "Bollywood Across Borders" 9/10/2010: War News Radio reports on the Afghans' love for Bollywood cinema.
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 07:47
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Interview with Mark Sundlov, manager of the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historical Site near Cooperstown, ND.
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 17:44
Writer Mitch Albom's rabbi asked him to deliver his eulogy when he died. The ensuing eight years of meeting with the rabbi as well as working with ...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
Breves cápsulas testimoniadas de los hechos macabros sucedidos en el Calabozo, San Vicente. El Salvador.
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 20:39