Back in 2009, one German documentary won both of Europe’s most coveted radio prizes – the Prix Italia and the Prix Europa. (more)

On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman. (more)

What would it be like if, in addition to our native languages, we could communicate across cultures in a neutral second language? (more)

Bill Stenberg says he was just “standing on the corner with a friend, the way guys do” when he decided to enlist in the military. (more)

As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world. (more)

A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links. (more)

Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music. (more)

In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before. (more)

Von Trapped is a story about a woman obsessed with The Sound of Music, as well as other things Austrian. (more)

A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight. (more)

This hour: the drama of sport, the history of sport, the sound of sport and more... (more)

As a girl, Reena Katz learned one story about the history of Israel and the people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her father's rare books about Palestine prompted her to dig deeper to understand the landscape of the Middle East. (more)

This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee. (more)

When Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on students during a war demonstration on the Kent State University Campus in May, 1970, four young lives were ended and a nation was stunned. (more)

I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films. (more)

This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man’s obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture. (more)

A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem “I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes. (more)

Miguel de Unamuno is a very important figure in Spanish history. However his great grandson is much further away from him than any other person in Spain. (more)

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. (more)

What was the earliest sound ever recorded, or "bottled"? The First Sounds (FS) project, organized by a group of audio historians, scientists, and archivists, is dedicated to exploring these pioneering sounds, and sharing them with the world. (more)