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Episode Two: The Mute
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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We’ll explore the sounds that have been evacuated from Iraq, musicians muted by their disappeared audiences and bygone origins.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Episode One: Speechlessness
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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Our debut episode, devoted to the topic of speechlessness, introduces you to our host Bahjat Abdulwahed, the “Walter Cronkite of Iraq” living as a ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
Veterans Day Soldier Story: Bob Buntin
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bob Buntin, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:48
Life of the Law #128 UGANDA: Pt 3 - Escape
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Beatrice Oswee with her daughter in Gulu, Uganda.
"If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 36:25
Radio Silence Trailer
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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Trailer for Radio Silence series

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: :30
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promo - Leni Stern - 670
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: :45
Peace Talks Radio: The Best of 2013-2017
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A compendium of best moments - information and inspiration - from 5 years of the Peace Talks Radio program that bridged the series on peacemaking ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reel Discovery: Hondros
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin explores the world with a gifted war photographer in Hondros.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Clarence Sasser by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Clarence Sasser
The story of Clarence Sasser is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He p...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 15:14
The Field of Blood
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Nicholas Morton
he year 1099 marked the Crusade’s final act … the conquest of Jerusalem. This deed has long been taken as proof of the crusaders’ anti-Islamic hatr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
82: How To Welcome A Refugee - Christina Psarra, Doctors Without Borders
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Christina Psarra, Credit: Lauren Schiller
Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe. Christina Psarra, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian ...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, WNIN, KUT, and KSJD


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Rethinking PTSD with journalist Sebastian Junger
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sebastian Junger, Credit: Tim Hetherington
With his book Tribe, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger upends our ideas about PTSD.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 1
John Brown and Harper's Ferry
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious takes a tour of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, a historic national park and site of the civil war struggles between union and confede...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
Vietnam: Radio First Termer
From: Robin Washington
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The story of the role of radio in the Vietnam War — with actual airchecks of North Vietnamese propaganda, Armed Forces radio and underground GI bro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 1
Poet John Balaban
From: New Letters on the Air
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Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: First They Killed My Father
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin travels with a displaced family during the Cambodian genocide in First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of C...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Program 2 ~ The Soundtrack in Vietnam
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
A Vietnam Soundscape
From: WHRV
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Vietnam was the first war fought to a soundtrack, with over 4000 war-related songs written and recorded between 1965-73. The lyrics were patriotic,...

Bought by KHNS and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
They Are Going to Kill Us
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda and Farrah showing off their University of Arizona gear outside the KXCI studios. They coincidentally both came to the recording all decked out in UA colors! Like many Syrian girls, Farrah doesn’t show her face on social media.
In episode 14 Farrah returns with Houda to talk about her family’s harrowing experience in their home in Homs, Syria early in the war. After the ev...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
Making Music in the Syrian Diaspora
From: The GroundTruth Project
Caption: Ahmad Naffory is pictured on a Beirut rooftop. He founded the band Assa'aleek, but after being denied re-entry to Lebanon, was granted asylum in the Netherlands. The band endures without him, and he has continued making music in his new home., Credit: Photo courtesy of Mohamad Khayata
Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 27:05
Reel Discovery: Dunkirk
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin joins the rescue mission with Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
From War Zone to Peace Work
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

Bought by KSJE and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reel Discovery: War Machine
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin marches off to battle with Brad Pitt in War Machine.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
From War Zone to Peace Work
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

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


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5

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