Week of October 5, 2025 – Confronting Suicide
On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we talk with psychologist Dr. Ursula Whiteside about her efforts to stop suicide. We also talk about the pressuresy journalists face as "frontline responders" with Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-SuicidePromo30NeedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-Suicide-59.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/356090-confronting-suicide-support-for-reporters-coveri
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Week of October 12, 2025 – Book Edition "1941" "Beatitudes of Peace
On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popular effort to keep America out of World War 2 before the Japanese surprise attack pulled the country completely in. Also, John Dear's book THE BEATITUDES OF PEACE, in which he deconstructs each of the teachings that he calls the "blueprint for how to be a human being"
PROMO: http://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-TwoBooks-Promo-NeedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3 – http://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-TwoBooks-59.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX – http://www.prx.org/pieces/191773
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Week of October 19, 2025 – Recasting Peace: Sadako Sasaki and Seattle’s Peace Park
In this edition of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Anna Van Dine visits Seattle’s Peace Park, where a stolen statue of Sadako Sasaki — the Hiroshima girl who folded 1,000 paper cranes — is being recreated by artist Saya Moriyasu. The story reflects on Sadako’s legacy and the role of art in peacemaking.
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/RecastingPromo1.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-RecastingPeace59.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/590265-recasting-peace-sadako-sasaki-and-seattles-peace
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Week of October 26, 2025 – Making Peace with Death and Dying
Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also includes host Paul Ingles sharing his experience of losing both his aunt and mother in a two-week period in 2011.
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-Death-30SecPromoNeedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3 https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-Death59.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/73913-seeking-peace-around-death-and-dying-peace-talks
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Week November 2, 2025 – Love or Fear: Which Motivates us Most?
Four competing essayists debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think Off" in New York Mills, Minnesota
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PTLoveFearPromoNeedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PTLoveFear59.mp3
59:00/54:00 on PRX https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/147926-love-or-fear-which-motivates-us-more-59-00
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Week of November 9, 2025 – Reframing The Holidays: Toward Justice and Peace
Peace Talks Radio explores efforts to rename and reclaim holidays like Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day. Guests Mahtowin Munro and Rory Fanning discuss how these commemorations can conceal painful truths — and how reframing them can open space for justice, healing, and peace.
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/HolidayPROMO1_mixdown.mp2
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-ReframingHolidays59.mp3
59:00 PRX: : https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/590025-reframing-the-holidays-toward-justice-and-peace
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Week of November 16, 2025 – Lui Xiaobo: Profile of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Two writers with ties to 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo talk about his life and writings. Xiaobo died Thursday, July 13, 2017 at age 61 while on medical parole in China, where he was being treated for liver cancer. He was 7 years into an 11-year prison sentence for trying to overthrow the Chinese government
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-XiaoboPromo-needsTAG.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-Xiaobo2017-59.mp3
59:00/54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/59666-nobel-prize-winner-liu-xiaobo-profile-in-peace-p
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Week of November 23, 2025 – Doing Business with Compassion
A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-Business-30SecPromoNedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/Podcast/PT-Business59-podcast.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/165768-commerce-with-compassion
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Week of November 30th, 2025 - Kindness and Compassion in the Film “The Antidote”
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we consider a 2020 film documentary “The Antidote”, a feature documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America. It's about everyday people who make the intentional choice to lift others up. Host Paul Ingles talks with the film's directors: Academy Award-nominee Kahane Cooperman, and six-time Emmy winner, John Hoffman.
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PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-Antidote-Promo-NeedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-Antidote-59.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 Version on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/359626-kindness-and-compassion-on-display-in-film-doc-th
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Week of December 7, 2025 – Musicians/Activists for Social Change
PEACE TALKS RADIO host Paul Ingles profiles 3 musicians whose music turned the attention of their fans to issues of peacemaking, social justice and ending hunger & poverty. Jackson Browne, Marvin Gaye, and Harry Chapin
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PTMusicians30SecPromoNeedTag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-Musicians-59.mp3
59:00/54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/374970-musicians-for-peace-social-justice-jackson-brow
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Week of December 14, 2025 – The Effort to "Cure" Violence
Today, Dr. Gary Slutkin's effort to treat violence like an infectious disease and a conversation with former U.S. intelligence officer Ray McGovern who talks about presidents and peacemaking during his three decades of preparing briefings for the White House, and about a 1928 effort to make war illegal - the Kellogg/Briand Pact.
PROMO: : https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PeaceTalksCureViolencePromo-needstag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/Podcast/PT-CureViolence59-podcast.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX : https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/161775-the-effort-to-cure-violence
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Week of December 21, 2025- Peace on the Battlefield
Two instances when peace broke out – right on the field of battle. First, the impromptu but widespread unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 in the early months of fighting in Europe in World War 1. Also the story of the National Jubilee of Peace – the first major gathering of Civil War veterans from the North and South in 1911 - 50 years after the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas
PROMO: https://www.goodradioshows.org/PromoMP3s/PT-ChristmasTruce30SecPromo-NeedsTag.mp3
59:00 MP3: https://www.goodradioshows.org/BroadcastMP3-59min/PT-ChristmasTruce59.mp3
59:00 / 54:00 on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/70966-peace-on-the-battlefield-the-christmas-truce-of-1
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