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StoryCorps Historias: Ruben Aguilar and Bill Luna
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ruben Aguilar (R) and Bill Luna (L)
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
Chet Baker
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WNJR, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It may be hard to imagine, but in the 1950's, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." This week we explore the real-life legend of Duke'...

Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNJR, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Chet Baker
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz trumpeter/vocalist double threat Chet Baker.
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, KPVL, Interlochen Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 7
Pearl Harbor Veteran Jim Peacock Remembers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Pearl Harbor veteran Jim Peacock., Credit: Greg Latza, greglatza.com
Jim Peacock is one of only a few dozen U.S. veterans who witnessed both the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and the war's end on deck the...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Public Radio Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSJD, and WAMC


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 5
The Jayhawks - Mystery Demos
From: Andy Cahn
Series: New Music from Public Media Service
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5 track sampler of The Jayhawks acoustic "Mystery Demos" recorded in 1992.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Bach Mix "Bach Beyond Music"
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: J.S. Bach
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :44
Creative Time: 33 Years of Public Art in NYC, John Kelly
From: Megan Martin
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John Kelly & Love of a Poet: an audio stop on a tour of Creative Time's 33 Years of Public Art series

  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 02:20
Good Friday, 1865: LINCOLN'S LAST DAY
From: Craig Wichman
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The character of a country, and its President, are revealed -- as a traumatic war winds down, and eerie events presage Abraham Lincoln's own end...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KWIT, North Country Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2008
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 13
StoryCorps: Martha Conant
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Martha Conant (CONE-ant) tells her daughter-in-law, Brittany, about surviving the crash of United Airlines Flight 232

Bought by The Story, WNIN, KFOK-LP, KFAI, and WCBU


  • Added: Jan 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 5
Talk About It: The Jewish Mourning Process
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Grieving for the deceased... and comforting the living.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:03
  • Purchases: 2
Honoring the Body: Taharah
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Leaving the world as we entered it... but with a twist.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio, KFAI, Iowa Public Radio, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 5
Back to Iwo Jima: Navajo code talkers return
From: Ashley Gross
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Four Navajo veterans return to the site of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 1
Artist Born of War
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Writers from the US and Vietnam, whose births as artists were formed from their experiences from the Vietnam War.

Bought by Northwest Public Radio, KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Wandering Souls
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Story of a Vietnam Veteran's return of personal effects taken from the body of the N. Vietnamese soldier he killed.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, KSUT, WHYY and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
Saints and Indians
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Winner of the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for best national news documentary, Saints & Indians tells the story of a program that placed thousands o...

Bought by KSJD, WRPI, The Story, KUOW, KCRW and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2006
  • Length: 15:40
  • Purchases: 16
Tough Decisions in Biloxi
From: Michael Fitzhugh
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A closer look at the changing face of Biloxi's Point Cadet

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
Compact Discoveries 105: The Dream of America
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" is featured, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.

Bought by KENW, WFIU, KALW, KENW, KCSC and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 28
RN Documentary: A War Requiem
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The psychological problems of soldiers during and after World War One.

Bought by KGNU


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Lemon Tree
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
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An award-winning documentary that explores the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the intertwined stories of an Israeli woman and a Palesti...

Bought by KLCC, KPCC, KGLT, and WYPR


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 38:21
  • Purchases: 4
Darwin Exhibit
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Profile of the American Museum Of Natural History in New York's Darwin Exhibit

  • Added: Dec 23, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
RN Documentary: Leaving a Mark - The story of an Auschwitz survivor
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Eva Schloss is the “posthumous step sister of Anne Frank”. She tells her own story of how she survived 2 years in hiding, 9 months in Auschwitz an...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: A Diary of War and Liberation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An 80- year-old Dutchman opens up the diary he kept as a teenager during the German occupation of Holland and the liberation by Canadian troops fo...

Bought by KAWC


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 1
A Meeting of the Ways: Part 1
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens when an anti capitalist protestor and a right wing christian performer meet on the streets of New York City during the 2004 Republican...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 03:39