Dreaming of Osama explores the ever-moving boundaries of the “war on terror” and its influence on the collective unconscious. Osama Bin Laden has a way of lying low -- then, just as the public begins to forget about him, he makes an unexpected reappearance. (more)

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

Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah. (more)

Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet. (more)

News correspondent Jamie Tarabay spent much of the past decade reporting from some of the world's most high-profile conflict zones, including two years as NPR's Baghdad bureau chief. (more)

Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. (more)

Weaving together archival footage, new interviews and personal recordings, The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda presents a unique look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994. (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)

Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo lead grim lives -- they’re forcibly recruited to serve with government forces or rebel troops in a long and bloody civil conflict that’s ravaged the region for years. (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)

This hour: melodies from the world around us.*Note: due to rights issues, not all pieces in this show can be streamed on our website.  (more)

Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment. (more)

This hour: a pizza chef travels to North Korea to cook for Kim Jong Il, a young man contemplates his release from "juvie," and more. (more)

A mother misses her son. (more)

This hour: memories and reverberations of conflict. (more)

In the summer of 2002, 17-year-old Hyder Akbar traveled from California with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences. (more)

This hour: Dads. The good, the bad, and the complicated. (more)

The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowki presents the recovered tapes of a young marine who kept an audio diary of his war experience in Vietnam until his death. (more)

When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers. (more)

Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005. (more)