PRX - Pieces for Topic: War

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  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Critics slam the UK’S plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. The German chancellor under fire over weapons for Ukraine. Con...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: Sex traffickers target Ukrainian refugees.Ukrainian cultural heritage becomes a casualty of war. Is Turkey becoming a back-...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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Jeannette Rankin, was born in 1880 in her parent’s ranch in Montana and became the first woman elected to Congress in 1917. She was a key organi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 4
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What was a nice Jewish grandmother doing flying into ISIS territory, preparing for a secret mission? After Lisa Miara's family suffered through ter...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 31:56
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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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Jolynn Lee, Marine Corp Spouse of the Year 2018, shares her journey of helping her husband and family live with PTSD.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 58:03
Caption: Christina Psarra, Credit: Lauren Schiller
Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe. Christina Psarra, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian ...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, WNIN, KUT, and KSJD


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we'll meet Shelley Kotz, a person so involved in the community of Toledo it's hard to cover everything she doe...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
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Our Special for Memorial Day week: 5 female authors. For Monday, Dava Guerin reads about a wounded woman, a vet from the Afghanistan theater, from ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
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Nigisti Hailemariam has been in the United States for over 20 years; she has two kids, a stable job, and a red Honda outside her three bedroom apar...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
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Retired Army Sgt 1st Class Max Voelz first recorded in 2011 to remember his wife...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang talk mental balance, cultural sensitivity, and images that they can’t shake.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:12
Caption: Peace Pilgrim & Peggy O'Neill
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Peace Pilgrim / Peggy O'Neill
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
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For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
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Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
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Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:22
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When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:04
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Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
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She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale. Also available...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
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Hear stories of human trafficking survivors in post-war Iraq.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:13