This hour: two decades after he was forced to flee, a young Palestinian man returns to his home to meet the Israeli woman who lives there now. (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)

Remember when we were paranoid? (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)

This hour: a chronicle of European history through the sound of bells and a bizarre spectacle of endurance. (more)

How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them? (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)

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)

This hour: a radio station dedicates five days of air-time to a live reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace. (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)

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)

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

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)

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

A mother misses her son. (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)

This hour: memories and reverberations of conflict. (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)