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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
Fear, Hope, and Friendship: Mideast Teen Girls Speak Out (from 2005)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Recorded in 2005, teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel all speak their truths. The group had gathered at an annual meet up at a Peace C...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Surviving The Bataan Death March" (Narration by the late Senator John McCain) Special Encore Presentation
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
For 2023-24 "Surviving The Bataan Death March" Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW) Special Encore Presentation Offered as ...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 17
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
Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator
From: Dennis Parker
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There are historians within us all. The first-hand accounts in "Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator" - written by Deborah Levine and direc...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:50
Surviving The Bataan Death March (Narration by Jack Doepke)
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis, WRKF, WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 17
AG 21-22: The Songs That Won The War, 5/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Solidarity With Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents secular and religious Jewish music from Ukraine in solidarity with all of the Ukrainian people.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Thank you message from Veterans
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
Bois Forte Veteran Series - George Brown
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gene Goodsky
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hea...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
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
Constant Wonder - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: General Patton; Topic 2: Race of Aces; Topic 3: Pacific Wrecks

Bought by KTNA, WYPL, RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day Memories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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This special Memorial Day episode brings you stories from the Civil War and both World Wars. These stories help us remember and appreciate the sacr...

Bought by KALW, Morehead State Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 15
Jeannette Rankin Pacifist and voting rights advocate
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jeannette Rankin, was born in 1880 in her parent’s ranch in Montana and became the first woman elected to Congress in 1917. She was a key organi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 4
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the Secret Language School During WWII, THE FULL PRESENTATION at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:12
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the US Army's Secret Language School During WWII at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:20
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The Big Pond #36: Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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On June 24, 1948, the Soviet military administration officially cut off roads and rails into West Berlin in the Berlin Blockade, isolating it from ...

Bought by KWMR, KICI Iowa City, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 3
S2 E5 Welcome To Vietnam
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 35:44
The Big Pond #21: What’s a Sister City Really?
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2