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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the Pentagon's systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to bat...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
A story from legendary radio storyteller, Joe Frank
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 28:30
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
The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 08:40
Tatiana McBraun, a political science major at San Jose State, told KQED’s Lillian Mongeau she feels too much security can be a bad thing.
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: :33
An examination of President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the strength of his leadership during the U.S. Civil War.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 03, 2011
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 1
Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
His time spent in the German army was always a complicated subject. But for my father a beloved teddy bear helped restore his pre-war self.
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 04:51
The second show featuring stories from the Greatest Generation. Alma Hahn prays for deliverance from a snake-handling church service, a man speaks ...
Bought by KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
3 Essays from This I Believe on Fear
Bought by Red River Radio Network
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stephen has an afternoon drink with a new friend and accidentally stumbles into the heart of human evil.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 51:03
- Purchases: 2
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
“Palestinian Hoop Dreams” is a thoughtful story by Ahmed Hemeid, a Palestinian student at United World College. Ahmed’s tells us an amazing story t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix and YouthCast
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Some say the war in Afghanistan accomplished nothing.
- Added: Jun 23, 2010
- Length: :40
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 08:31
Ruminations on legacy, death, and imperial policy.
- Added: Feb 06, 2010
- Length: 01:54
Where but in American could a man start a war that kills a million or so people and not be castigated as much as another man who cheats on his wife?
- Added: Feb 01, 2010
- Length: :28
Miep Gies, the Austrian woman whose family protected the family of Anne Frank during World War II and who found Anne's diary scattered on the floor...
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 19:01
The Ribbon Demonstration, on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima - what people could not bear to lose in a nuclear war.
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:14
This piece is part of a quartet series called HiPapa Days.
DAD DAYS ARE EVERGREENS- Any day the nature of the piece fits the news of the day or ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 08:30
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 02:46
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.
Bought by Prairie Public and WBEZ
- Added: Apr 14, 2009
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 2
Soldier TJ Turner believes fighting the war on terror should include restoring hope in children.
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 03:00
