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Women's History Special - Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A one-hour program focusing on jazz singer and songwriter Peggy Lee. Great for Women's History Month!

Bought by KMUW, WJSU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The I-SPY Clinical Trial Program: Building a Pipeline of Novel Anticancer Agents
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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This episode of The Onco'Zine Brief is an interview with Angela M DeMichele, MD MSCE, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 33:31
Ep.19: Second Chances
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
Caption: Kasey O'Connell, Fif Ghobadian and Alice Cahan, Credit: Road Twenty-Two
Iran-born Fif Ghobadian created San Francisco fashion brand Road Twenty-Two to provide jobs for women released from prison.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 13:36
Ep.21: Restoring Access to Local Farm Food
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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Tatiana Garcia Granados started The Common Market to bring farm food to her Philadelphia neighborhood. Now she's taking on the nation's broken food...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 14:55
Ep. 20: Reinventing the Wheelchair
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
Talented Women
From: Justine Yan
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A 75-year-old actress confronts her fear of aging while writing and performing on Cape Cod.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
Ep.18: Making a Difference with Foster Kids
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
Caption: Danielle Gletow, One Simple Wish
With her nonprofit One Simple Wish, Danielle Gletow is bringing the joy of childhood to the lives of foster kids, one wish at time.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 1
Le Chœur de Radio France
From: Max Nemhauser
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Choir of Radio France is one of four ensembles maintained by the national radio program, and employs over 75 singers. This piece investigates w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 17: Women Helping Women
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
Caption: Budget Buddies
Kathy Brough and Anita Saville created Budget Buddies to help homeless women break free of poverty, aided by a sisterhood of volunteer personal-fin...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 16: Embracing Change
From: The Story Exchange
Series: The Story Exchange
Caption: Kryshon Bratton
Hear how Houston pool-builder Kryshon Bratton has used the entrepreneurial "pivot" to stoke growth and create the work-life balance she wants.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 11:57
Ep.15: A $20 Million Comeback Story
From: The Story Exchange
Caption: Angelica Garcia-Dunn
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 12:45
Ep. 14: On a Mission
From: The Story Exchange
Caption: Donna Peel and Stacy Ratner
Meet Donna Peel and Stacy Ratner, two very different women taking on two very different social missions -- both with inventive, entrepreneurial non...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 19:46
Ani DiFranco: Binary
From: Joyride Media
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Singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco returns with songs that are Political with a capital P and where "the feminist diatribes are turned up high"

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KALW and more


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
A Better Love
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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We follow a mother's love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mother...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 47:06
The Working Tapes: Phone Operator
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Kitty Keeps On Singing
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Kitty Flanagan Barrett Curran
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.

Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 2
Voices of the Baltimore DOJ Report & The Intersections Of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Policing
From: Stefanie Mavronis
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In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:38:20
Birth
From: Ahri Golden
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From award-winning producers Ahri Golden + Tania Ketenjian, Birth is an audio mosaic that explores practices and perceptions of birth in America. ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 56:27
  • Purchases: 1
Bertha Palmer - Kathryn Chesney
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Bertha Palmer-Kathryn Chesney
Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Kathryn Chesney

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:04
Adelaide Bullen - Anita Palladino
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Adelaide Bullen
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
Lizzie Webb Guptill-Linda Pupke
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Lizzie Webb Guptill
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and presented by Linda Pupke

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:39
Lizzie Webb Guptill-Amber Lyon
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Lizzie Webb Guptill
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:49
On the Other Side of Fear
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
Kaity Kasper: From the Mouth of God Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Kaity Kasper, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Kaity Kasper does not wear her heart on her sleeve. But her right arm tells a tale. From wrist to shoulder, this appendage bears a polychromatic na...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 27:28

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