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WAR WIDOWS Part 2
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Widows from WWII, Vietnam and Iraq wars discuss changes over time from the loss of their husbands in war.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
WAR WIDOWS - Part One
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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WWII widow Peggy S. Harris lost her husband of 6 weeks and never remarried. Pauline Laurent's husband died in Vietnam in 1968 and Erin Dructor's hu...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
War on Poverty
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, it seems Congress is looking to the past to come up with policy ideas to help the po...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Veteran, Lynn Hill
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of col...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
Edwidge Danticat
From: New Letters on the Air
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Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 44: Colonel Nipples – Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Ben Coletti (left); Colonel Nipples (right), Credit: Bobby Pickles
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
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: Simple Rediscovery #519
From: Teosson Wells
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In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 1
Women on the Homefront
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh interviews historian Rebecca Plant about war veterans and “mom-ism.”

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
Give Syrian Women (and Peace) a Chance
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Recreating Baltimore's Famous Star Spangled Banner
From: Lauren Ober
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Chances are you’re familiar with Mary Pickersgill’s work, even if her name doesn’t ring any bells. Pickersgill was the Baltimore flagmaker responsi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Woman’s War
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian Catherine Clinton discusses gender dynamics on the home front, and the American History Guys consider ways in which the Civil War is dist...

Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 3
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans face an uncertain future after war
From: KALW
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Since 2001, about 2.5 million people have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, at least a third of them more than once. When they return, many ve...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
The Military's "Woman Problem"
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the Pentagon's systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to bat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Two Women for Peace: Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill [Peace Talks Radio] (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Peace Pilgrim & Peggy O'Neill
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 for Peace: Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill [Peace Talks Radio] (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Peace Pilgrim / Peggy O'Neill
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
Ten Years Later: Counting the Costs of War in Iraq
From: Making Contact
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We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Huda Sha'arawi
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Gabrielle Petit
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
The Things They Carry: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen
From: Jake Warga
Series: The Things They Carry: U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan
Caption: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen, Credit: Jake Warga
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
Global Ethics Corner: Are Women Second Class Citizens in the U.S. Military?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Despite making valuable contributions to the U.S. military since the Civil War, women are still technically excluded from direct ground combat role...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Women in Combat
From: War News Radio
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On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Fatima Learns to Drive
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps MVI: Marilyn Gonzalez and Jessica Pedraza
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Sgt. Marilyn Gonzalez (L) and her daughter Spc. Jessica Pedraza (R).
Sergeant Marilyn Gonzalez and her daughter Specialist Jessica Pedraza remember deploying together to Iraq in 2010.

Bought by WEZU and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
Anne Elizabeth Moore reads from Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present
From: Radio K
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People tell a lot of ghost stories around Halloween. But for some, ghosts aren't the supernatural figures we read about in books or see in movies. ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:08

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