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This week on the show: Changing laws and lives in limbo - Thousands of women and children of former ISIS fighters are stuck in camps in Syria...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me! A British fashion designer turns comments about her appearance into wearable a...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Thousands of abandoned bikes from Burning Man Festival are put to good use.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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This week on the show: Tackling disinformation - The spread of disinformation is a growing problem around the world. We go behind the scenes of...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Will Germans change their Christmas plans enough to avert a coronavirus catastrophe in January? Also, why are women so muc...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The many challenges of the new normal - The pandemic is making sexual violence against women and children more prevalent ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The ripple effects of coronavirus - The coronavirus pandemic has had and still is having a big impact on people's lives...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Marsha Corbett talks about how coronavirus is impacting her life and her small business - the restaurant Nippy's Soul Food in Wilmington, North Car...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Uphill battle - This week, we meet activists in sub-Saharan Africa who are trying to change entrenched cultural belief...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Bitter Sugar and facing the drought - Bitter lives and little hope: meeting sugarcane workers and their families in Guat...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: After the Escape - Nicaraguans living in exile push for political change in their home country, refugees with disabi...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Houda, her mom and sister, and their friend Mishelle on the tram in Sabino Canyon
Episode 31 Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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This week on the show: The world's largest airport, an gigantic bridge, an new canal: ambitous infrastructure projects are supposed to make Istanb...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Trump White House, the latest justification for dismissing legal challenges to the Muslim travel ban is that the Constitution makes the Un...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 05:28
Caption: Carol Gilligan was Ms Magazine's First Woman of the Year..., Credit: Ed Levy/Boston Globe
If you missed the smearing, cheap shots and character assassination against women this year, and one woman in particular, maybe you were cut off f...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2017
  • Length: 08:11
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The anniversary of the loss of my childhood friend who died from suicide just passed. She, like many women, was sexually abused and never told an...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks when men engage in sexploitation whose responsibility is it to refuse to sanction or accept as ‘just the wa...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
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Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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I’m not sure how one marries the  proprietary "I give the right to life”  to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In my state, this week, leaping off the lower right hand corner of the Front Page of the state’s largest newspaper was this “Educator who won one...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:42
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Riding on the train to the Democratic National Convention one year, I had the good fortune to talk with a former president of N.O.W. For young twen...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
Caption: Sushmita Memorial, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sushmita Banerjee pled a full life. Full of danger, trying to make a difference in this world. This week Sandip Roy remembers her legacy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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As the Syrian revolution unfolded over the last year, Syrian-Americans have been glued to YouTube - the primary source of information from the war ...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
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This 55 min piece features excerpts from a Feb.24th tribute to folk singer Odetta at the Riverside Church in NYC. Performing artists include Pete S...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2009
  • Length: 55:21
  • Purchases: 6