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Caption: Names of fallen soldiers from the First World War, engraved on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
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A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. [28:31]

Bought by KBBI and WRVO


  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Jane Beard, of Silver Spring, Maryland
Now that her kids are grown up, it's not them keeping Jane up at night—it's her father.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious takes you to France as it was in 1932 where Maya Schwartz was born to an immigrant family. 1939 to 1945 her family was torn apart by...

  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Harrison Wright (R) with his grandson, Sean Guess (L)
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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A documentary exploring the effects of being a refugee on identity and personal relationships.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 51:59
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Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City. As a precaution to listeners,...

Bought by KFAI and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
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
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Charlene Schiff discusses her and her mother’s escape in 1942 from the Horochow ghetto in Poland. Soon after their escape, Charlene was separated f...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:04
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In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
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From "Warrior Writers" 8/20/2010: War News Radio reports on the Warrior Writers program, which helps US veterans channel their feelings and experie...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Caption: Prison Gitarama, Credit: Peltner
A country in change, that is still hold back by its recent past

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 12:53
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An interview with Arno Hamburger, city council member and president of the Jewish community in Nuremberg.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 26:26
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Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48
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We look back at the history of the occupation of Palestine. We’ll hear from several Palestinians about how they’ve personally been affected. And we...

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  • Length: 29:00
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Honoring those who fight a war, no matter how unjust

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:09
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A documentary exploring the lives of Kentuckians in combat and on the home-front during World War II.

Bought by WEKU and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 56:19
  • Purchases: 2
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Marissa Sellers wrote this poem during her trip to Rwanda in 2006.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:04
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Hannah Campbell interviews her father, Tom Geerdes, about coming home from war.

Bought by KFOK-LP, KUOW, WMNF, and KGLT


  • Added: Nov 10, 2006
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Three Iraqi Americans' views on Iraq war

  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:51