PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...
- Added: Mar 04, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Why Go To War?" - The conflict between America and Iran is rapidly escalating. So how exactly should we decide why - or when - to go to ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2020
- Length: 01:58:59
December 10th, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton. Questions linger. Was it a heart attack, accident, or murder?
Bought by WETS
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
African Americans who fought for their country in Vietnam often experienced the same kinds of racism they had endured back home. While white and...
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Mind Of A Terrorist" - What ideology or belief would compel someone to become a terrorist? This hour, a look at the psychology of politi...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Our wars abroad and our wars at home. This week on the show, acclaimed graphic artist Molly Crabapple and Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham join Laur...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
When your back is against the wall and you're all out of options, you don't want to break the law...but it wants to break you.
- Added: Jan 07, 2016
- Length: 53:57
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
This week on an all-NEW Snap, amazing stories from people paid to do our dirty work.
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 53:57
As early as the 1940s, Admiral Hyman Rickover saw the need for radical change in America’s submarine serice. Without his perseverance the Cold War ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 21:31
- Purchases: 1
Writer Helen Thorpe provides a detailed account of what happened to the three women who served in the military during the last decade.
- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh interviews historian Rebecca Plant about war veterans and “mom-ism.”
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 2
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 28:58
A review of the intriguing WWII documentary.
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 01:59
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 09:29
Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...
Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL
- Added: Oct 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
- Added: Sep 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 03:36
Drone warfare to combat terrorism has increased sharply in recent years. Where are we headed with these robotics of war? In this uncut interview, ...
- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 17:00
From "Unfinished Business" 8/6/2010: War News Radio reports on why Iraq has still not been able to produce a government 5 months after the national...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 07:23
25 years before the battle of ‘The Little Bighorn,’ 40 years before the ‘Battle of Wounded Knee,’ there was ‘The Bloody Island Massacre’ in the spr...
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 26:04
A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.
Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4