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A Shortcut Through 2023
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: GW Bridge June 2023
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
War and Peace-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Faces of War, Credit: Dali
A Mid-East Mix featuring David Ben-Gurion, Yasser Arafat, MLK Jr, Joe Biden, Joe McCarthy, Fred Rogers, Ozzie Davis, Howard Zinn, Pete Davidson, Vl...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:41
AFVN: The GI's Companion
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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For ten years, the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio served as a lifeline to "home" for the millions who served in Vietnam and southeast Asia.

Bought by KSRQ, KFSK, WABE, WMNR, KCNP and more


  • Added: May 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 7
Food Fight
From: Things That Go Boom
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In this special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: Two stories about food, family, and the choices our government makes in our...

Bought by WFDD Ops, KECG, WYPR, WLPR , WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
A Shortcut Through 2022
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Volodymyr Zelensky
A retrospective featuring the major events of each passing year, Shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtaposit...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRCB 104.9, Raven Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 7
Yom Hashoah
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Just after Passover, we mark Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for songs of sadness and resolve.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Chief Standing Bear Story
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Chief Standing Bear
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 46:34
NL 21-36: Glenn Miller Goes To War with the Army Air Force Band, 8/30/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1942 Glenn Miller broke up his popular big band and joined the military, where he formed a new and even bigger orchestra that included strings, ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
A Shortcut Back to 9/11-The 20th Anniversary Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Remembering 9/11
A look back on September 11, 2001 on the 20th Anniversary with new music and additional material on Afghanistan, small and just wars and "The War O...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 1
for Memorial Day -- Scott Simon hosts Alan Seeger: Instrument of Destiny
From: Murray Street Productions
Caption: Alan Seeger - Soldier, Diarist & Poet
From the trenches of The Great War, Alan Seeger's poems, letters and diaries spring to life in the voices of Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVIA, WHRV, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 46
Wunderbar Together - Two German songs that went around the world
From: Arndt Peltner
Series: Wunderbar Together
Caption: Peat Bog Soldiers / Moorsoldaten
During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
War of the Welles - the 80th Anniversary Edition
From: john rabe
Caption: Album art for 75th Anniv, Credit: Michael Uhlenkott/Unknown
80 years ago, Orson Welles really did scare the pants off the nation with his radio broadcast "War of the Worlds." This is the backstory, from docu...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 49:29
  • Purchases: 3
Prisoners of War
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Inmates at LBJ
During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon called Long Binh Jail. But LBJ wasn’t for capt...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 18:19
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
A Vietnam Soundscape
From: WHRV
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Vietnam was the first war fought to a soundtrack, with over 4000 war-related songs written and recorded between 1965-73. The lyrics were patriotic,...

Bought by KHNS and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Nathan Hale and the 4th Blood Moon
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:48
Bombs drop at Brookings, Oregon
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
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
War and Musical Dada
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 7
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
Building 98
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: There's Something Out There
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Jenny Lynn heard strange sounds when she first spent the night at Building 98. She thought it was the wind until she told a friend and discovered t...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 1
"Changi Concert Party"
From: Margaret Evans
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
Shortcuts to War & Peace-The Red Line
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Better Living Through Chemistry
Barack Obama draws a red line in regards to Syria & chemical weapons and this program reflects the tension during the past few weeks mixed with pre...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:31