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And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women's Fight for the Vote
From: PRX
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In the centennial year of the 19th Amendment, Rosario Dawson and Retta guide us through the fight for women’s voting rights, a history that resonat...

Bought by WILL, KUHF, KGOU, WKMS, PRX Demo Station and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 50
Part 3 What Future Holds
From: The Story Exchange
Series: 100 Years of Power
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In 2020, six diverse women run for president, and Nancy Pelosi takes the House. With experts Molly Ball, Kelly Dittmar, Ronnee Schreiber and Glynda...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 25:15
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Slow Burn of Progress
From: The Story Exchange
Series: 100 Years of Power
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From Eleanor Roosevelt to Shirley Chisholm, women begin to win control over their lives and bodies. With historians Susan Ware and Gina Luria Walke...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 38:44
  • Purchases: 1
Part 1: Battle for Suffrage
From: The Story Exchange
Series: 100 Years of Power
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How Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led a rancorous fight, at times at odds with Lucy Stone and Sojourner Truth. With historian Ellen D...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 38:16
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 140: Cowboy Bob
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:54
Stories From My Grandma
From: Elias Schutzman
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My Grandma Jody, who recently passed away, sharing her life story...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 22:23
The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing from Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP12 Tribute to Candye Kane
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Candye Kane had an amazing life. She had a great voice, cool music and was a woman who was a champion for other women in the world regarding strugg...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 50:23
I Spy: Real Life Spy Stories
From: Rob Sachs
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
This Wall Is My Wall
From: Israel Story
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In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 47:26
PREA, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week features our second segment on PREA- the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Last week, we heard from Irene, who is being held in the Indiana Wo...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:12
Episode 123: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Chapter 11, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Women Scorned
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the 2019 Women’s March in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this timely Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us excerpts from the 2019 Women’s March in ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Peggy Lee, The Singer-Songwriter
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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Miss Peggy Lee (born May 26, 1920) was more than a pop star: she was also a world-class songwriter in the male-dominated world of jazz. On this Aft...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women's History Month: Blossom Dearie On Verve
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 92: Dementia Americana
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. The early 20th century’s biggest murder trial, and a part...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 21:05
Episode 91: The "It" Girl
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The story behind the face of New York’s Gilded Age, Evelyn Nesbit.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 27:24
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
Forgotten Voices
From: Leslie Cross
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A women's history-month series, highlighting lesser-known historical female figures.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:03:37
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: A letter by Katherine Jones, signed K. Ranalagh , Credit: Michelle DiMeo
The woman beside the father of chemistry.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 25:35