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The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 20:15
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 28:48
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 39:25
On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 30:34
- Purchases: 1
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 14:39
A gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption
- Added: May 11, 2007
- Length: 49:36
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Added: Feb 23, 2007
- Length: 15:25
The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.
Bought by WSKG, WLRN, Wyoming Public Radio, WRPI, KERA and more
- Added: May 03, 2006
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 20
Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI
- Added: Sep 22, 2005
- Length: 29:14
- Purchases: 2
