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RESISTANCE: THEY FOUGHT BACK -- Paula Apsell Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Paula Apsell talks uncovering history, creating unity, and depicting Jews saving Jews.

With fake weapons and phony uniforms, they helped win WWII. Now, they're finally getting medals.

Caption: A soldier sits next to a fake inflatable tank used by the U.S. Army during World War II. The inflatables and other decoys were deployed in Europe to fool enemy troops about the positions and movements of real Army units., Credit: Ghost Army Legacy Project

The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations.

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, KUT, and WHRV

ONE LIFE -- James Hawes Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

James Hawes talks decency, resonance, and making a film that matters.

Incident at Vichy/The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

A dark tale from Arthur Miller, plus a docudrama about the brilliant, controversial physicist

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more

StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 02

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials

The second special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio in December 2023, this speci...

Bought by KMXT

Nuclear Colonialism and The Story “Oppenheimer” Didn’t Tell (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Image of the explosion after the Trinity detonation on July 16, 1945, Credit: United States Department of Energy

Oppenheimer swept the Golden Globes, but what did it leave out? We talk about the impact of nuclear colonialism on New Mexico with Myrriah Gómez, a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WORT

Judgment at Nuremberg

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

A piercing look at the journey to justice.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCHW and more

78 years after Joe Cooper survived a kamikaze attack, the Navy has identified his ship's wreckage

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: 101-year-old Joe Cooper survived the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Ommaney Bay. He calls it a "miracle" that divers have found and identified the wrecked aircraft carrier off the coast of the Philippines., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront

101-year-old Joe Cooper was a crew member of the USS Ommaney Bay, which was attacked by a Japanese suicide pilot in World War II.

Bought by KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, and KUT

The Nakba: 75 Years On

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948., Credit: David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120

This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

D-day: 150,000 Men, and One Woman

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.

Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more

Debut novelist Laura Spence-Ash’s “BEYOND THAT, THE SEA”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Inspired by a 25-year-old New York Times article about evacuated English children revisiting their U.S. foster homes as adults, ⁠Laura Spence-Ash⁠ ...

Kindertransport

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

A family secret with its roots in the Holocaust.

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more

American Veteran: For a World War II navigator, the Army provided a sense of purpose

From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran

Caption: 2nd Lieutenant Edward Field, veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II., Credit: Insignia Films

When Edward Field was in a plane crash during World War II, an act of altruism saved his life. Field – who grew up gay and Jewish in New York – fou...

Bought by WTIP, Texas Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida

733: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace / 734: Guilt Tripping, 10/15/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

EP4: Mallory's Story

From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars

Once we accept culpability for a sinful past, what does accountability look like? Even generations after?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more

EP3: Charlotte's Story

From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars

When Charlotte was a teenager she asked her mother a question: was my grandfather a Nazi? It began a years-long quest to learn more about what her ...

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WHRV and more

EP2: Haley's Story

From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars

Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma and what does it take for them to feel welcomed?

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS and more

EP1: The Two Reconstructions

From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars

We start with three generations of German women, and go back in time from there. Through defeat, occupation, and rebuilding. How did two reconstruc...

Bought by KUHF, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, WCQS and more

Reel Discovery: Burial

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery

On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin goes on a secret mission with a group of Soviet soldiers in the final days of WWII in Burial.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and KKRN

AG 21-22: The Songs That Won The War, 5/24/2021

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow

From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...

NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace

Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more

669: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace / 670: Jazz Migrations, 3/5/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

Went the Day Well?

From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell

One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...

American Veteran: His mom hoped he'd patrol Coney Island. Instead, he was a witness to history.

From: American Homefront Project
Series: American Veteran 2021

Caption: Frank DeVita, veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, holds a picture of himself in uniform when he served in World War II., Credit: Amanda Lalezarian

70 years after he worked a landing craft off the coast of France on D-Day, the memories of World War II still haunt Frank DeVita.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGOU, RadioStPete Florida, KBBI Alaska, KCNP and more

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