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Fear, Hope, and Friendship: Mideast Teen Girls Speak Out (from 2005)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Recorded in 2005, teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel all speak their truths. The group had gathered at an annual meet up at a Peace C...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Slava Ukraini with Frank Pichel Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Frank transporting his first group of Ukrainian passengers. , Credit: Frank Pichel
In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:18
The End of Smallpox
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 1
A Few Good Women -- in the French Pantheon At Last
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The French Pantheon was created in 1790 to honor those who have done great service to the country. The motto over the door reads "To great men, a g...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:58
EP5: Volker's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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How does a society create meaningful places of encounter? Spaces where you just can't look away from the past?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 6
EP4: Mallory's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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Once we accept culpability for a sinful past, what does accountability look like? Even generations after?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 6
EP3: Charlotte's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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When Charlotte was a teenager she asked her mother a question: was my grandfather a Nazi? It began a years-long quest to learn more about what her ...

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WHRV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
EP2: Haley's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma and what does it take for them to feel welcomed?

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
EP1: The Two Reconstructions
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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We start with three generations of German women, and go back in time from there. Through defeat, occupation, and rebuilding. How did two reconstruc...

Bought by KUHF, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
68 and Counting: 1968
From: Israel Story
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Nearly a quarter of Israel’s population gathered to watch the 20th anniversary military parade in a newly unified Jerusalem. We’re taken back to th...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 11:21
The Big Ponder #37: Street Names
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
King of the Hill
From: Israel Story
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From the top of Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. An...

  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:08:41
The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
Hot Tub Time Machine
From: Israel Story
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When neighbors Steve Gray and Anat Harrel of Kibbutz Hanaton in the Upper Galilee lost their jobs as tour guides due to the pandemic, they decided ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 36:04
The Big Ponder #31: Winterreise
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 171: Sealand
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 49:00
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #6: The Flag
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
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In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 47:57
Tell Saki - Part I
From: Israel Story
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In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:51
Police De-escalation / Quakers in Costa Rica
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
I Spy: Spies Who Pushed Back
From: Rob Sachs
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On this hour-long special we hear from two former intelligence people who, like whistleblowers in the Trump administration, pushed back against per...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WHYY, WAMU, WWNO and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
His Royal Highness Prince Emanuele Filiberto: True Moments of Happiness
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: His Royal Highness Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Credit: Shefik
Happiness - Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice is an Italian television personality, a member of the House of Savoy and the son and heir...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
International Nurses Day
From: Levingston Lewis
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Ears Adrift speaks with Navy Nurses that are deployed on the USNS Comfort .

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 09:10