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Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Caption: Troops aboard the General Nelson M. Walker, Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project

Sound-rich stories from and about a Vietnam War-era troopship, in the voices of people whose lives were affected by the journey to war.

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WGCU, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more

Added: May 21, 2014
Length: 53:32
Purchases: 29

Losing Pakistan: A Search for Common Ground

From: Dan Boyce

This piece examines the tenuous state of relations between the United States and Pakistan. It follows Montana Public Radio Reporter Dan Boyce on a ...

Added: Apr 01, 2013
Length: 47:43

Two Women for Peace: Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill [Peace Talks Radio] (29:00)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM

Added: Mar 07, 2013
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 2

Two Women for Peace: Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill [Peace Talks Radio] (59:00 / 54:00)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more

Added: Mar 06, 2013
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 6

Back to War

From: Traveling 219

A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 14, 2013
Length: 06:04
Purchases: 1

First World War poetry with Dr Kate Macdonald

From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium

Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium

As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

Added: Nov 01, 2012
Length: 54:00

India's Techies Hitchhiked on the Way to the Moon

From: Mahi Palanisami

Caption: First prime minister of India and science visionary, Jawarhalal Nehru!

Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...

Added: Sep 26, 2012
Length: 29:42

Wat Misaka

From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day

Japanese-American shows uncommon courage on and off the basketball court during WWII.

Bought by KSLU and KPVL

Added: Jul 01, 2012
Length: 02:36
Purchases: 2

Ink and M16s

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

In a war you have your typical players. They're the soldiers, the medics. Politicians and journalists. The translators and engineers too. And then ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Feb 23, 2012
Length: 06:55
Purchases: 5

Returning Home

From: War News Radio

News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Added: Dec 16, 2011
Length: 29:00

Veterans of Occupation: From Iraq to Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Veterans Join Occupy Wall Street, Credit: Iraq Veterans Against War

On this edition, we bring you the voices of Veterans from Occupy Wall Street and a special report on veterans returning home from war and the strug...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and 90.5 WSNC

Added: Nov 08, 2011
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Part Three-New Protein Sources

From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan

Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives

Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

Bought by KUER

Added: Oct 15, 2011
Length: 05:27
Purchases: 1

The Graffiti of War

From: War News Radio

Caption: Sgt Brandon Benton sent this to his wife Emily Benton, who waited for him at home near Fort Hood, Texas, when he got word of a return date., Credit: graffitiofwar.com

War News Radio talks with the founder of the Graffiti of War Project, which collects service members’ art left on the walls and buildings in the ba...

Bought by WTIP

Added: Jul 05, 2011
Length: 06:38
Purchases: 1

Civilian Perspectives

From: War News Radio

News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and more.

Added: Jun 10, 2011
Length: 29:00

Bracelets of Grace: The Vietnam War Story of Major Stanley Horne

From: David Berner

It's been 40 years since the very first POW-MIA bracelet was made and distributed. The iconic bracelets had a humble beginning at the height of th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUAC, WMPG, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more

Added: Oct 05, 2010
Length: 29:17
Purchases: 20

Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam

From: Lydia Wilson

Caption: Bunk Canvas from the General Nelson M. Walker , Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project

Graffiti left on a troop transport ship by soldiers heading to the Vietnam War, found accidentally, is salvaged by a couple on a decade-long campai...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and NPR Illinois

Added: Aug 03, 2010
Length: 55:00
Purchases: 2

Rush Hour

From: War News Radio

From "Gridlock" (6/25/10): War News Radio reports on commuting in Baghdad.

Added: Jun 25, 2010
Length: 07:41

Independent Minds: At War in the Pacific

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds

A new perspective on the often-overlooked story of the Marines who fought in the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War II.

Bought by WVTF, WLPR , KUHF, WVTF, Angelica Community Radio and more

Added: Dec 17, 2009
Length: 55:54
Purchases: 60

When the Spam hit the fan in Nam

From: Rich Halten

Caption: House in Hue where GI broadcasters made their stand

A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, KUT, and KUOW

Added: Oct 19, 2009
Length: 10:36
Purchases: 5

Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds

Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more

Added: Apr 30, 2009
Length: 57:29
Purchases: 15

Visit to Afghanistan

From: Arndt Peltner

Visiting the German troops in the north of Afghanistan

Bought by CKMO

Added: Mar 20, 2009
Length: 28:27
Purchases: 1

Crossing Queens Boulevard

From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America

Caption: Malika Kalontarova, Credit: Warren Lehrer, photo ©2003

A family of Bukharan Jewish dancers and musicians escape war-torn Tajikistan. They move to an apartment near Queens BLVD, and go from dodging bulle...

Bought by Remix Radio