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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:05

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Strait of Gibraltar from space, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss the natural security provided by the ocean edge: the barrier effect of mangroves, beaches, cliffs, ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
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Ships have long been used for exploration and trade, as well as for colonial expansion and conflicts at sea. We are using technological achievement...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Water conflict is nothing new. We have been fighting wars over the most valuable resource on the planet since thousands of years B.C. In this episo...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
Caption: Gaza seaport, Credit: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Seaports have long been places of commerce and trade: hubs connecting land and sea in an import/export exchange that contributes to regional, natio...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Children's art is an eyeglass into their view. , Credit: Susan Cook
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2017
  • Length: 07:35
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On the streets, Danny compares himself to an animal in the wild that is in constant danger. Growing up around gangbangers, it felt natural for him ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:49
Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.'', Credit: Szep, Boston Globe, July 18, 1974
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2016
  • Length: 07:16
Caption: The Moving Wall came to Maine not long ago before Memorial Day..., Credit: Susan Cook
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 07:06
Caption: Migrants and refugees aboard a Turkish fishing vessel as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing part of the Aegean Sea. October 2015., Credit: Reuters | Fotis Plegas G
Record numbers of migrants are taking to the seas to escape political strife, sectarian conflict and war, crossing the Aegean and Mediterranean sea...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: A lone sailboat flying the Armenian flag to commemorate the centennial as marchers cross Golden Gate Bridge above
On top of the highest hill in San Francisco is the Mount Davidson Cross -- a monument to the Armenian Genocide. Friday, April 24th marks 100 years ...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Euphrates River, Credit: NASA | by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data/EarthObservatory
Sectarian conflicts in the Middle East have been ongoing for what seems like forever. The latest violence in Syria and Turkey brought Peter Neill t...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:03
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A post- post-9/11 podcast. This episode examines New Jersey's Empty Sky Memorial & Bruce Springsteen's song “Empty Sky”

  • Added: Jan 09, 2014
  • Length: 13:53
Caption: We should treat the truth better than that., Credit: Susan Cook
Corrupting the Message: Remembering the Iraq War Ten years ago this week, the Iraq War began. Like every other atrocity in history, or let's limi...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
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Grand Rapids resident Matthew Miltich tells the story of his grandfather Andró Miletic and his reluctant journey from seaside Croatia to the Iron R...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Voices of the Armistice

  • Added: Nov 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:28
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Reasons for the Viking Age.

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Longshoremen plan to close West Coast ports on May 1 to lead widespread labor protests against the Iraq war.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:58
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A study on new peacebuilding actions within the Pentagon.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
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5 Generaitional Essays - Special- This Believe essays on War

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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How support of troops gets conflated with support of war

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:00