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From: Charlie Warren

Caption: World War II graves at Arlington National Cemetary, Credit: L. Sponsler

An objective, entertaining, and respectful music/sound chronicle of America’s war history starting with the Civil War, which spurred the eventual c...

Bought by KTNA, Wyoming Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCB and more

Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: (Left) Wilson Dairy Restaurant (Right) Helen Zia as a baby with mom., Credit: Photo copyright Helen Zia used with permission

This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...

Bought by KALW

Diet Eman, Righteous Among The Nations

From: Frederick Stella
Series: Common Threads: An Interfaith Dialogue

During WWII Diet Eman acted heroically to save Jews from extinction in the Netherlands. These are 2 conversations with her that originally aired o...

Prisoners of War

From: Radio Diaries

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon called Long Binh Jail. But LBJ wasn’t for capt...

Bought by PRX Remix

Poet John Balaban

From: New Letters on the Air

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

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

Studs Terkel: Born to Live

From: The WFMT Radio Network

Born to Live is Studs Terkel’s remarkable Prix Italia-winning audio collage program (produced with Jim Unrath) that first aired in 1962 and serves ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WWNO, WCQS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

"England to Australia, 1914"

From: Margaret Evans

This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...

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

TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 1

From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series