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Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
National Writers Series: Omar El Akkad
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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WDET's Nargis Hakim Rahman talks with Omar El Akkad about his novel "What Strange Paradise."

Bought by WNMU-FM, WKAR, and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
National Writers Series: Doug Stanton
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Doug Stanton with Colin Harrison
A conversation with author and National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist and Former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher
From: New Letters on the Air
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The Iraq War ended in December 2011, a dramatic setting for former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher, who discusses his novel, YOUNGBLOOD, which dra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series
From: New Letters on the Air
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This time on P...

Bought by WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student Veteran
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war? Producers at The Stanford Storytelling Project’s podcast, State of the Human asked six Sta...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Our Worst War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky, and Christian Appy on the legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Dodge M37
From: The Telling Room
Caption: Dodge M37, Credit: Andreas von Huene
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:17
Art In The Real World
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
Nuclear Ambitions
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Peace Message in Classical Music (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Composer Karl Jenkins, Credit: www.karljenkins.com
A music historian tells stories about how classical composers have been influenced by the threat of war and the hope for peace in their works. Mus...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, WFIU, KHNS, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
War News Radio Headlines 110819
From: War News Radio
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News and features from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:23
The other tea partiers: antiwar tax resistors
From: KALW
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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, exceptdeath and taxes” – those are the famous words that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:59
  • 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
Warfare by Corbin Bugni
From: Youth Speaks Seattle
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Spoken word piece on war and conflict both personal and global.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 23, 2008
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
A Portrait of War
From: Hannah Krakauer
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A San Francisco artist takes on the ambitious project of drawing individual portraits of all the American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: May 24, 2008
  • Length: 20:52
Alaskan WW II 10th Mtn.Veterans Remember
From: Katie Bausler
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Memories of three members of an elite WW II mountaineering force.

Bought by WTIP, KMXT, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 4
P.O.V. - Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White talk with P.O.V. about making their film "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars"

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:29
P.O.V. - The Camden 28 Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino talks with P.O.V. about the making of his documentary film "The Camden 28"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
B-Side: Dads
From: B-Side Radio
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Golf is the ultimate sport of dads. So in honor of Father's Day, B-Side's Tamara Keith went golfing with her father, husband and father-in-law. On ...

Bought by KMXT, KGOU, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A WWII Vet Remembers His German Friend
From: Andrew Witmer
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WWII veteran Ed Goshorn talks about befriending a young German pilot who had earlier tried to kill him.

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 12-Japanese-American Community in the Valley
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program looks at the Japanese-American Community in the San Luis Valley and how they arrived.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2