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Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2024
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Females are without question the stars of Hollywood costume design, raking in Oscars in numbers that far outstrip the men. They get lots of well de...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 02:30
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 03:00
December 7, 1941 was one of the deadliest days in American History. The massive assault on Pearl Harbor drove the American military to do something...
- Added: Dec 04, 2023
- Length: 03:00
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...
- Added: Aug 23, 2023
- Length: 02:30
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:07
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 02:54
In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy talks with documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain about her film "the Gulabi Gang."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
5 Moments with vocalist and NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR, WART FM and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 10
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Sep 01, 2010
- Length: 01:59
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 01:19
Men used to attract females by the smell of their bodies.
- Added: Jun 12, 2010
- Length: :58
- Added: Jun 01, 2010
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 1
I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 04:47
May we shed just one tear for the demise of the American hero?
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 01:43
The lunar/blood cycle governs many types of creation
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:42
The Ribbon Demonstration, on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima - what people could not bear to lose in a nuclear war.
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:14
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 05:35
- Added: Apr 08, 2009
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 31, 2006
- Length: 03:31
- Added: Jul 06, 2005
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Choreographer Agnes de Mille laments the lack of a coherent script for recording dance. (1958)
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Jul 06, 2005
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
