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Slava Ukraini with Uliana Bazar Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Self portrait., Credit: Uliana Bazar
Four years ago, Uliana Bazar, along with her spouse, Matthew Propert, left their home in the United States and flew to Ukraine, the land of her bir...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:20
Unbroken Promise
From: Levingston Lewis
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For over 70 years, Sailors of the Pearl Harbor attacks have been unidentifiable. The Defense POW/MIA accounting agency is part of the effort to ide...

Bought by WOUB and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
Peter Lee at Vivid Nails
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My father was an American soldier in the Vietnam War. I don't know my dad at all.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #126 UGANDA: Pt 1 - Abducted
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Life of the Law begins our 4-part series on Uganda. Reported by Gladys Oroma from Gulu, Uganda where she reports for local, national and internatio...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 36:29
My Vietnam War - During, After, and Way After
From: WGCU
Caption: Michael Hirsh tells his story of being an Army Combat Correspondent in Vietnam.
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Utopiah: Stories of Refugees
From: Tamarra Kemsley
Caption: The Marquez family during their stay in the Venezuela embassy., Credit: Berta Marquez
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
Humankind Special - The Power of Nonviolence: Healing the Trauma of War
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Produced by David Freudberg in association with WGBH/Boston. This Humankind special, "Healing the Trauma of War" tells the deeply moving stories of...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCPN, WWNO and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
An American Life
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
Caption: Vaughn Hood, Credit: Erica Heilman
A story about war and hairdressing.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:50
An Unofficial Embassy for Displaced Kurds
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar., Credit: Taylor Haney
Luqman Barwari abandoned his career to open a Kurdish restaurant in the U.S., a meeting place where immigrant Kurds can keep memories of home alive.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 4
God's Sanctuary
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Harold Lerner, 1945
1943, The Pacific. Aboard a troop ship bound for New Guinea, under threat of enemy fire, a young private is tasked with an awesome responsibility.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 13:58
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Prisoners of War, The Battle of the Bulge
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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This hour features four Vermont soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The program weaves together their stories of capture,...

Bought by WXDU and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Making of a Violin
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed du...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 2
Bonne Chance Comrades
From: Amira Anne Glickman
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This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 52:58
Love in the Time of Refugee Camps
From: Bending Borders
Series: Love is Complicated
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Two Syrians, separated by war, go to great lengths for love.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:29
Beyond the Rope: A Captivity's Aftermath
From: Eric Winick
Caption: David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill, Credit: Erik Swain
Former NY Times reporter David Rohde was abducted in Afghanistan only two months after marrying Cosmopolitan photo director Kristen Mulvihill. Seve...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Citizen Synforose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
Writing, War and Fictitious Creatures
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With tenacious willpower, 24 year-old Brad Watts writes short stories to help him cope with stress.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:27
Omer's House
From: Andrea Wenzel
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Documentary about Sri Lankan Omer Cassim Mohammed Sevahir's personal efforts to challenge communal boundaries

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 21:18
Iraqi war translator struggles with new life in America
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Profile of an Iraqi who came to Seattle as a political refugee

  • Added: Mar 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
Waiting for Jarod
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Marjorie Richard keeps company with a life-size, cardboard cut out of her son as she waits for his return from the war in Iraq.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and WBEZ


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 3
In The Beginning - Reporting Iraq
From: Bruce Wallace
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First Impressions from a few Iraq War reporters

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 05:28
Voice of the Troubles: 25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strike (Segment)
From: Charles Lane
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Exploring conflict in the modern world through the stories and experiences of the Irish Troubles

  • Added: Jul 09, 2006
  • Length: 10:52