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WorldCanvass: Teaching Anne Frank
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An expert panel discusses the impact the Diary of Anne Frank continues to have on generations born long after her death. Among the panelists is Ron...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:29:38
StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.
Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.58_Tree Hugger
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The word "Tree Hugger" can often be used in a derogatory manner. Although many people don't know its historical significance is much more than long...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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
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
Operation Hulda
From: Israel Story
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In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 41:32
  • Purchases: 1
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
From: Arndt Peltner
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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
National Writers Series: John U. Bacon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
#18-34 Schubert Farewell 1
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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This week on Played in Oregon the Schubert Ensemble plays the piano Quintet by Antonin Dvorak.

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Fiction Writer Rachel Hall
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP 2.2 — Welcome to Frome: A Town Divided
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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Part 2 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Meaningful Man
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Viktor Frankl’s book 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is part memoir, part manifesto and part discourse on human psychology. Written in 1946, after Vikto...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 50:26
Buried memories of China's Cultural Revolution haunt a family
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: A young Belinda Cai and her father., Credit: Belinda Cai
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Only British King To Be Executed (Read #1)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015
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Author Charles Spencer reads from his gripping book (a best seller in England), "Killers of The King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I." Just...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1460 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/22/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Buddy Montgomery leads a reunion which inspires a batch of above average lady singers and then substantive rhythms. A long comfortable cushion of ...

Bought by WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WYAP, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 6
Christmas with the Enemy
From: Drew Darling
Caption: Christmas on the Western Front, 1914
The Christmas truce along the Western Front of WWI

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WVTF, WUTC, RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 21
THE GREEN PRINCE -- Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Nadav Schirman, Gonen Ben Yitzak, and Mossab Hassan Yousef, San Francisco, CA 7/25/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak talk hope, perspective, and first meetings.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 24:34
Echoes from Rwanda: Twenty Years After the Genocide
From: Barbara Simmons
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In April 2014, the world is taking time to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide and to remember the more than 800,000 lives that...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 12:27
Remembering the Magnetic Manna Dey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy listens back to the music of Manna Dey.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Wild Journey: The Anne Innis Story
From: Sandy Bourque
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When Anne, a young Canadian woman in the 1950’s, is told it’s not possible to study giraffe in the wilds of Africa because she’s a woman, she sets...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:24
Veteran Repays Near-Half-Century Debt
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Cliff Brody looks at an old photo of his deceased friend/sergeant, Joe Blakely, who changed Cliff’s life during the Vietnam War., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 3
I Am Not The Only One
From: Arndt Peltner
Caption: Genozid Mermorial, Credit: A. Peltner
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 20:15
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2