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Constant Wonder - Fleeing Iran and Finding His Way in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An Iranian refugee comes of age in Oklahoma, and he shares with us how his Christian faith informs his writing in unexpected ways.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
Constant Wonder - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Scheming in the commandant's dress shop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Historias and Military Voices Initiative: Connie Doria Rocha
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Connie Doria Rocha talks about her experience as a civilian mechanic during WWII, and how that taste of independence changed her life.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Denise Baken, Richard Yingling, and Christian Yingling
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Denise Baken (center) with her children Christian Yingling (left) and Richard Yingling (right) at their StoryCorps interview in Baltimore, MD on August 23, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Denise Baken tells her children about her family's legacy of military service—and the battles faced along the way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Duane Topping and Jamie Topping
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Duane Topping served three tours in Iraq. Coming home, he suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but found comfort from an unexpected place.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
Kidnapped in Guatemala
From: Sarah Bromer
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When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2016
  • Length: 17:13
StoryCorps MVI: Anny Pena and Jonny Pena
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Anny (L) and Jonny (R) Pena
Retired Marines Anny and Jonny Pena talk about the challenges they faced as military spouses, and what it was like when Jonny came home from Afghan...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 3
Civil defense sirens activated for severe weather
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Six Chairs: Rowan Pope, Voice to Vision and the Holocaust Book Project
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
Carrots help you see in the dark
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Max Voelz and Mary Dague
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Retired Army Sgt 1st Class Max Voelz first recorded in 2011 to remember his wife...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Francis Scott Key: Lawyer, Layman, Tone-Deaf Lyricist?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Francis Scott Key (shown here in a portrait by Theodor Horydczak) was far more than just the author of what would become our national anthem., Credit: Library of Congress
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps MVI: Christine and Gordon Schei
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Christine and Gordon Schei talk about learning that their son, Army Sergeant Erik Schei, had been shot in the head in Iraq.

Bought by WSGE and WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 2
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
Mapping the War
From: War News Radio
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The four Iraqis you’re about to hear tell a story of a remembered landscape. It’s a story about how war blackened the city of Baghdad, split its ne...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
Peace News in Wartime
From: War News Radio
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This week on War News Radio, “Peace News in Wartime”, we discuss the role of Morocco in the Arab Spring. Then, we learn about the process of establ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
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
StoryCorps MVI: Justin and Deanne Cliburn
From: StoryCorps
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Army National Guard Specialist Justin Cliburn tells his wife, Deanne, about Ali, the young Iraqi he befriended during his service in Iraq.

Bought by KOSU and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Adeline Roccko and Zachariah Fike
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.

Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Peter and Jacqueline Headen
From: StoryCorps
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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
Rebel Yell
From: Peter Solomon
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A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.

Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
WNR: Finding a Laugh in Iraq
From: War News Radio
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From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio goes looking for comedy in Iraq, and finds out what makes a good Iraqi joke.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
Whether you like it or not, it affects you too.
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
An Immigrants' History of South Park
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 1

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 09:01
Owners of a Purple Heart
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: Bill Jones
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KRUA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 4