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For ten years, the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio served as a lifeline to "home" for the millions who served in Vietnam and southeast Asia.
- Added: May 27, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 7
This week on the show: Boris Johnson resigns. World leaders tout the idea of a Marshall Plan for the Ukraine. Pope Francis moves to quash the rumo...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In today's Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores a St. Cloud connection to the war in Ukrain...
- Added: Jun 25, 2022
- Length: 30:00
From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs wi...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, North State Public Radio, KUHF and more
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 7
During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...
- Added: Jul 18, 2019
- Length: 58:30
Album review for New Jersey band Titus Andronicus's break out Lit-Punk album The Monitor. By Paolo Rosen
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 04:14
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
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song.
The program includes three individual sets, and includ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 50:18
- Purchases: 8
A music historian tells stories about how classical composers have been influenced by the threat of war and the hope for peace in their works. Mus...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Oct 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2010
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 50
- Added: May 23, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 23, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
British pianist Leslie Howard tells the story behind this familiar Scottish classic.
- Added: Dec 14, 2005
- Length: 04:37
