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Songs of the Doomed
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Open Spaces, October 6, 2023
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces
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On today’s show, we remember Mathew Shepard - a gay University of Wyoming student murdered 25 years ago this month.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 45:11
The Choirs Kept Singing of Freedom - Birmingham Sunday Remembered
From: David Kattenburg
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In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 34:47
StoryCorps September 11th: Jan Vigiano and John Vigiano Sr.
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jan Vigiano and John Vigiano Sr.
Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Tr...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
The Future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
While SF Fought COVID, HIV Prevention Efforts Stalled
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, resources were diverted from HIV prevention to battle the new health threat. "Civic" talks to doctors about how that ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Gustav Mahler: Turmoil and Triumph
From: Charlie Warren
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"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world," said Mahler. Hear unique historical comment and quotes from biographers, authors, conductor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Phillip Lazowski and Ruth Lazowski
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Raynita Snipes Johnson and Gene Robinson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.
Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jason Thomas and Jason Christian Thomas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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For the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Former Marine Sergeant Jason Thomas opens up to his youngest son, Jason Christian Thomas, about the search and re...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Ronnie Palazzolo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ronnie and Richie Palazzolo were identical twins who did everything together, including working at the World Trade Center. They were both there on ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 172: Roselle and Michael
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that somethi...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 32:23
9/11 music specials - September 11th remembrance - 1 or 2 hours
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials
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2 one hour music specials - for broadcast on or around September 11th. / Patriot Day - Hour one features Singers/Songwriters. Hour two features Roc...

Bought by KAAD-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WORT, RadioStPete Florida, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:50
  • Purchases: 5
S06 Ep02: In Memoriam, 9/11/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, music written in memory of those days and the effects it had on so ma...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
Elvis Presley-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Elvis Presley
Extended Tribute to Elvis Presley who left the building this week back in 1977 (August 16th)

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:56:43
  • Purchases: 1
Ma Rainey-a Celebration of the Blues and African American Performance
From: Don McIver
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Using "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" film now out on Netflix, we look at how she influenced the blues with selections from her, Sterling Brown, Bessie...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 56:40
StoryCorps: Ginger Petrocelli and Albert Petrocelli Sr.
From: StoryCorps
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Retired New York City Fire Chief Albert Petrocelli died from COVID-19 in April, nearly two decades after losing his youngest son, Mark, in the Worl...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 02:27
StoryCorps: Emily Aho and Hannah Sibley-Liddle
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Emily Aho and her daughter Hannah Sibley-Liddle in New Hampshire. 2016., Credit: Hannah Sibley-Liddle
After losing her father, Army Staff Sergeant Emilio “Leo” DiPalma, to COVID-19, Emily Aho reflects on his WWII service with her daughter, Hannah Si...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
From: Arndt Peltner
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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
We Are Still Here - "Mir Zaynen Do!"
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: We Are Still Here!
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory; Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of International Holocaust Remembrance Day with Michael Berenbauym
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 talks with Michael Berenbaum as he comes to the St. Cl...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Oh! What A Poetical War!
From: Sue Zizza
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Featuring the popular poetry of the time before and during the Great War: the Music Hall songs; the songs the soldiers sang; the poems that served ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, Prairie Public, and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Alfred Wilson and Susan Bro
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 2017, Heather Heyer was killed while protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her supervisor from the law offi...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:32
StoryCorps: Harjit Sodhi and Rana Sodhi
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Rana Sodhi (L) and Harjit Sodhi hold a photograph of their late brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was shot and killed at 52. Since his death, the brothers have been involved in educating others about Sikhism and the discrimination their community faces in , Credit: Mia Warren
Rana and Harjit Sodhi remember their brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was killed in the very first hate crime after the September 11th attacks.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1

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