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Negotiating Towards Peace: To Release Hostages or Manage Our Daily Lives
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Former Hostage Negotiator Sue Williams
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at hostage negotiations. From criminal kidnappings to political pawns, hostage taking is a ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Top of Mind - Why Do Wars Happen?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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What leads a society to look at the inevitable devastation that war causes and fight anyway? The answer provides the path to peace.

Bought by KMXT, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WYAP, KSTK and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 10
To create more resilient warriors, Air Force training is emphasizing wellness and stress management
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland prepare to leave a classroom after listening to a lecture on resilience, which included tips on self-control, keeping a positive mindset, and relaxation., Credit: Vanessa Adame / U.S. Air Force
The new basic training curriculum aims to better prepare recruits for the uncertainties of war.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 7
After defeating affirmative action at most colleges, activists' next target is military academies
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: New cadets line up at West Point for Reception Day June 26, 2023. The military academy's class of 2027 includes more than 1250 people. , Credit: Eric Bartelt / U.S. Military Academy at West Point
In its June ruling outlawing affirmative action in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court excepted the nation's military academies. A new lawsu...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 8
Helplessness, Trauma, and Nightmares with Dr. Greg Mahr
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Can we predict who will develop PTSD? Our guest, Dr. Greg Mahr, studies patients with acute trauma, and he discovered that their dreams in the days...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:38
For the first time in decades, military academy cadets will be allowed to become parents
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: New cadets in West Point's class of 2027 arrive at the military academy for Reception Day June 26, 2023., Credit: Eric Bartelt / U.S. Military Academy
In 2021, Congress reversed a policy that blocked students with dependents from continuing their studies at the highly competitive military academie...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 5
For these West Point cadets, military leadership includes finding solutions to climate change
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Paul Farnan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, talks with cadets after they presented their capstone projects in May 2023 at the military academy at West Point., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
Under a new Army program, West Point students are working with the Defense Department to address climate challenges that could affect national secu...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 9
20230501: World War II, 5/1/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity for...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
World War II
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity for...

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  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
For disabled children of military parents, frequent moves can lead to schooling and health care gaps
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: 8 year old Victoria Thomas boards a bus to attend school outside of San Antonio, Texas. Victoria is nonverbal and relies on a motorized wheelchair and assistive communication devices., Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special educatio...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 7
Top of Mind - When is War Justified?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Rarely is going to war clearly the right or wrong choice. When is war justified?

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 9
To prepare for new international threats, the Air Force is readying pilots for the unexpected
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force Capt. Dylan Rabbitt guides student pilots through a training scenario using virtual reality simulators at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas., Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
The Air Force is revamping the way it trains pilots so they can better respond to potential challenges from countries like China and Russia.

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
Restoring our First Responders, and Service Men and Women with Connected Warriors founder and Yoga Instructor Judy Weaver
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Restoring our First Responders and Service Men and Women with Connected Warriors founder and Yoga Instructor Judy Weaver. Military, First Responder...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 26:48
The Untold Story of University Archivist Tom Steman and National Archive Month
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits with St. Cloud State University Archivist Tom S...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:32
Confederate names are being removed from bases, but is a KKK image at West Point 'more nuanced'?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Three bronze panels were mounted on a West Point classroom building in 1965 to display key events in American History. One of the images depicts a hooded Ku Klux Klan member., Credit: Elizabeth V. Woodruff / U.S. Military Academy
The Defense Department is planning to eliminate Confederate names from bases and more than 1100 other things in the military. But it's not clear wh...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 6
Archives, artifacts, and 'a lot of rocks': The Army Corps of Engineers is training veterans for jobs
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Matthew Hanks labels a pottery shard in the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis office. Hanks is part of the Corps Veterans Curation Program, which employs veterans to help maintain artifacts unearthed in various Corps projects., Credit: Eric Schmid / American Homefront
An Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 6
From War Room to Board Room: Facing Uncertainty with VUCA
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Caption: Filmmaker Chris Nolan discovered a sane way to deal with the chaos we all confront today: VUCA, an old battlefield system developed by the Pentagon back in 1987.
One look at the headlines on any given day makes it clear: the world is UNclear. How can an organization navigate through the volatility, uncertai...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 56:01
The Untold Story of the Paramount Center for the Arts Fundraising Concert for Ukraine and the Non-Profit Organization Alight
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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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
Most military recruits come from families of people who served. Experts say that's not sustainable.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Military and community leaders, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (second from left), applaud new military recruits at a "Community Salute to Service" May 11 at Waynesville, Mo. High School., Credit: Dawn Arden / U.S. Army
The military is having a tough time finding new recruits, and one factor may be its heavy reliance on families of those who’ve served.

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 6
Conflict and Violence
From: Wind & Rhythm
Caption: Grenade attack on Panzer Tanks, Battle of Amiens, The Somme 1918, Credit: Fritz Fuhrken
How does one creatively express the horrors of war? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we look at how artists communicate the effects of violence an...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/15/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: 'Nobody in Ukraine is safe' - We spoke to a theoretical physicist on the ground in Ukraine about his life, his work dur...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 19, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Driving buses, giving vaccines, patrolling the border: Is the National Guard asked to do too much?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A member of the National Guard drives a school bus van in Chelsea, Mass. in October. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker activated the Guard to address a shortage of drivers as the school year began., Credit: Jesse Costa / WBUR
The National Guard is being tasked with a growing number of missions, and critics argue that heavy deployments are straining the force.

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
For veterans starting college, "Academic boot camps' ease the transition to the classroom
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: English Professor Hilary Lithgow leads a discussion among about a dozen veterans and active-duty troops at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill during the Warrior-Scholar Project's 2021 "Academic Boot Camp.", Credit: Ira Wilder / UNC-Chapel Hill
The Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with the Warrior-Scholar Project, a non-profit group that runs the camps at major universities aro...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPBS, KCUR, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 4
The EXTENDED Untold Story of Photographer and Historian Jay Grammond and His Project to Record World War II Stories
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s EXTENDED INTERVIEW Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with photographer and histori...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 41:38
The Untold Story of Photographer and Historian Jay Grammond and His Project to Record World War II Stories
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with photographer and historian Jay Grammond. G...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1