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Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
Counselors Without Borders
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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From the forest fires in California to child soldiers in Uganda, survivors of disasters are receiving a new kind of aid. Counselors Without Borders...

Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 3
Soldier Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Writer Helen Thorpe provides a detailed account of what happened to the three women who served in the military during the last decade.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Grace Notes
From: Capital Public Radio
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World War I was a real blow to the European musical community. They were utterly unprepared for the war’s cruelty, and composers found it difficult...

Bought by WVTF, KHNS, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lines in the Sand
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The borders that divide up our modern world hinge, sometimes, on decisions that have stopped making sense. The Middle East is still suffering from ...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, KUOW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Thomas Keneally
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark the centennial of the start of World War I with the acclaimed author of 29 books, including the well-known SCHINDLER'S LIST (originally SCH...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Recovery
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 2
Conscientious Objectors in the Volunteer Military
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we look at conscientious objection to military service, which, in the United States, some presume doesn’t co...

Bought by KUOW and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conscientious Objectors in the Volunteer Military
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we look at conscientious objection to military service, which, in the United States, some presume doesn’t co...

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


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Cloquet shipwreck hunter searches for first German U-boat sunk by U.S. in WWII
From: WTIP
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Jerry Eliason is a shipwreck hunter who, most recently, discovered the Henry B. Smith in Lake Superior. Now he's embarking on a new project, to fin...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 21:15
Memorial Day Weekend Podcast
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Remembering War through Art

Bought by KMUN, KQAL, KPIP-LP, KSQM 91.5 FM, WABE and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 6
Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
Studs Terkel: Born to Live
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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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


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 56:45
  • Purchases: 9
Veterans and Disabilities (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Evicted from the Mountains (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of those...

Bought by WJCT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Evicted from the Mountains (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of those...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
Hiroshima Survivor / Miep Gies talks of Anne Frank / Foreign Aid
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Soh Horie/Miep Gies/Jamie Drummond
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...

Bought by WXDU and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 2
Hiroshima Survivor / Miep Gies talks of Anne Frank / Foreign Aid
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Soh Horie / Miep Gies / Jamie Drummond
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...

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


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Viva Voce and Civil War Selfies (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Today when we vote, we enter a private space, secretly make our choice, and go about our day. But early voting wasn’t just public; it was a raucous...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Doctors of Nazi Germany (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the late 19th century, German medical practices were considered to be the best in the world. But by the start of World War II, German physicians...

Bought by WJCT, KBYS 88.3 FM, WFHB, WTJU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Doctors of Nazi Germany (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the late 19th century, German medical practices were considered to be the best in the world. But by the start of World War II, German physicians...

Bought by WCNY, global24radio, and WRPI


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 3
Crisis in Ukraine: A Voice from Kiev, January 31, 2014
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Ethics in Security Bulletin
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What is the likely outcome of the violent clashes in Ukraine? Does the U.S. and the West have a moral imperative to intervene and, if so, how? Spea...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 32:30
A Concert for Peace with Mary Gauthier and Rahim Alhaj
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The PEACE TALKS RADIO series celebrates 10 years of radio and online programs about peacemaking with an anniversary concert in 2013. These highlig...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Charley Goddard
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we meet Charley Goddard. He is the newest character brought to life by the Minnesota Historical Society's Histor...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:40
  • Purchases: 1

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