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Program 08: The Doctor's Letter

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy recites a Civil War-era poem--a doctor's letter to the parents of a dead soldier who was his comrade in arms.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 05:01
Purchases: 2

Program 07: The Raid

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Alec Turner guides the First New Jersey Cavalry on a raid of the plantation that had been his home.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:14
Purchases: 2

Program 06: The Blood-Stained Primer

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy recounts the story of how her father learned to read

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:57
Purchases: 2

Program 05: A Fishing Story

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

John Gouldin's plantation was on the Rappahannock River in Port Royal, Virginia. He owned 2,000 acres and 77 slaves. If the slaves didn't work fast...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:15
Purchases: 2

Program 04: More Stories of Plantation Life

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Alec Turner was born on the Gouldin plantation in 1845 and remembered his childhood there in stories he told his children and grandchildren. Many o...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 02:24
Purchases: 2

Program 03: Young Alec and His Red Moccasins

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

In this episode Alec Turner's mother, Rose secretly makes a pair of red moccasins for Alec with disastrous consequences.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:10
Purchases: 2

Program 02: Africa, Slave Ships, and a Cherokee Princess

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

The story of Daisy's grandfather Alexander, whose parents were a shipwrecked English merchant's daughter and an African chieftain's son.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 05:23
Purchases: 2

Program 01: Daisy Turner, Vermont Storyteller

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Introducing Daisy Turner who lived to be 104 and was an extraordinary storyteller, sharing experiences from her lifetime and from her parents and g...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:20
Purchases: 2

The Forgotten

From: SCAD Radio

Tim Bui of Gulfport, MS tells his story of Katrina.

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Dec 25, 2006
Length: 02:34
Purchases: 1

Life After the Holocaust: Thomas Buergenthal

From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: Life After the Holocaust: Stories of Holocaust Survivors After the War

Thomas Buergenthal speaks about his life after the Holocaust.

Bought by WRPI

Added: Dec 12, 2006
Length: 24:36
Purchases: 1

SOWETO Today

From: Mikko Kapanen

The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

Added: Dec 06, 2006
Length: 10:30

Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media

Four Vermont soldiers talk about life in German prison camps after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge, and the life-changing effects of this ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WRVO, PRX to iTunes, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more

Added: Oct 13, 2006
Length: 57:08
Purchases: 17

Unpredictable Journey

From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight

Marc Steiner's personal essay of the trip he organized with three veterans to return to Vietnam 30 years after the fall of Saigon.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, WFCR, KXOT Public Radio and more

Added: Sep 22, 2006
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 8

MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight

Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by WUIS, WEKU, Iowa Public Radio, WYSO, KUOW and more

Added: Sep 21, 2006
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 14

DIRTY HARRY - When the American Dream Became a Nightmare

From: Claes Andreasson

The effects of the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada on people working at, and living downwind from the test site

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WNIJ, WNPR, KZYX, KCPW and more

Added: Sep 21, 2006
Length: 59:59
Purchases: 8

The Gilchrist Brothers

From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight

Interview with Congressman Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland and his brothers, three of whom served in Vietnam.

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

Added: Sep 15, 2006
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 9

Woody's Journey

From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight

Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO, KUOW, WNYC, WFCR, KSUT and more

Added: Sep 14, 2006
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 9

Ayacucho

From: Miguel Macias

A look at the region of Peru, the history of the Shining Path and the current political situation.

Bought by KPFA and Marfa Public Radio

Added: Jul 21, 2006
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 2

Valdivia: Stories of Survival

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features

MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...

Added: Jun 12, 2006
Length: 23:26

Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features

A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 12, 2006
Length: 09:38
Purchases: 1

A Map of The Sea

From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference

An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KFAI, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland, KUSP, The Nature Podcast and more

Added: May 04, 2006
Length: 14:57
Purchases: 6

The Lemon Tree

From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views

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

From WWII to Iraq War: U.S Veterans on War and Peace

From: Miae Kim

Four U.S. veterans share their views on war. An eighty-three year-old World War II veteran, two Vietnam War veterans, and a Gulf War veteran tell ...

Bought by KZYX, Marfa Public Radio, WFCR, and WDNA

Added: Mar 24, 2006
Length: 27:16
Purchases: 4

Gerda and Olcott

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront

A vacation in San Francisco, a flea market, and the chance purchase of old love letters.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio

Added: Dec 22, 2005
Length: 15:10
Purchases: 2

Out of The Ashes

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront

Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT