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Mercenary Morality Feature
From: With Good Reason
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Mercenaries have been with us for a long time, but they haven't gotten any less controversial. One professor thinks its time we learn from the 12th...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
War, What Is It Good For? (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bitwa pod Grunwaldem, Credit: Jan Matejko
If we can't end war, what can we learn from the fight? We look at 3 stories of conflict involving mercenaries, radicalized Union generals and the o...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 10
War, What Is It Good For? (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If we can't end war, what can we learn from the fight? We look at 3 stories of conflict involving mercenaries, radicalized Union generals and the o...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WNSB, KRZA, WXDU and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power & the Necessity of Military Force
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eliot A. Cohen
“Speak softly and carry a big stick” are the words of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. When President Garfield was assassinated two weeks later, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Peace Jobs + Revisiting U.S. Military Zones
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Conversation with two authors. First Suzanne Kryder talks with David Smith, author of "Peace Jobs: A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working F...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Peace Jobs + Revisiting U.S. Military Zones
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Conversation with two authors. First Suzanne Kryder talks with David Smith, author of "Peace Jobs: A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin journeys into the desert with a couple of haunted heroes in Derek B. Miller's The Girl in Green.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Salt to the Sea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ruta Sepetys
It’s known as the single greatest maritime disaster in history. Yet, it is a little known story. This casualty of World War II was far deadlier tha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Cahan
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Two Books: "The Beatitudes of Peace" & "1941: Fighting the Shadow War"
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popular...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
WorldCanvass: Redefining Nationhood (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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What defines a nation, or a state? What’s the meaning of sovereignty, and how do communal or religious identity figure into demands for self-deter...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 24:45
Reel Discovery: Hacksaw Ridge
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin battles her way to the front lines with the non-violent hero in Mel Gibson's incredibly violent Hacksaw Ridge.

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Peter Bergen, author of "United States of Jihad"
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra interviews CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen about his book investigating America’s homegrown terrorists.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:16
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
Reel Discovery: War Dogs
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin ventures into a war zone with Jonah Hill and Miles Teller in War Dogs.

Bought by KKRN and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Humanitarian Work for Peace: Doctors Without Borders & The Peace Corps
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Doctors Without Borders has been serving the wounded and sick in conflict, disease and disaster sites around the globe since 1971. The organizatio...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Humanitarian Work for Peace: Doctors Without Borders
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Doctors Without Borders has been serving the wounded and sick in conflict, disease and disaster sites around the globe since 1971. The organizatio...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson on his career as journalist and historian.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. Also: A New York street photographer left behind more than 300...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jim Stockdale and Jasey Schnaars
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Vice Admiral James Stockdale was a Vietnam War POW for more than seven years. His son, Jim, recalls the family’s difficult wait for his father’s re...

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 2
Peace Greats (Part 1) - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela, and King
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This is a Peace Talks radio special… from the archive of the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. We’re calling it Peace Great...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Box: A Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward Schultz
This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1

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