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130: Girl Power
From: The Mortified Podcast
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How do you do become an empowered woman when you're not yet a woman? A tribute to teenage Betty Friedans and Gloria Steinams everywhere. The Mortif...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:26
Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda: Two short plays by Jonathan Bernstein and Kate Robin
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Callie Thorne
Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, offers two romantic comedies with questionable romance! In At The Water’s Edge, Wet, a Production Stage Manager and his S...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Speed of Sound: Matt Nathanson
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Matt Nathanson talks about his new record, Show Me Your Fangs, being part of Operation Smile and writing for a new feminist anthology, as well as b...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 3
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
American Book Award-winning Poet Nikki Giovanni
From: New Letters on the Air
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The infamous poet Nikki Giovanni reads from her recent books, CHASING UTOPIA, BICYCLES, and ACOLYTES and discusses the influence of history, commun...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and WABE


  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Only In Malibu...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: AUGUST, 2015
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Does life seem too oh-so-serious? Then let's dive into the semi-ridiculous, often-caustic universe of celeb Chelsea Handler as she reads here from ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
The Apocalypse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
Deborah Sharp's Florida Mysteries on Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Deborah Sharp was a reporter for USA Today for nearly two decades. Given all the stories she wrote about killer sharks, rampaging alligators, and h...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:10
Tell Us Why You Want To Work Here?
From: Bryan Ward
Caption: Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Cafe Buzz-End of the World
From: Gail Isaacson
Series: "Cafe Buzz" Absurd Radio Plays
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Paul and Susan meet at a small town coffee shop the day before the end of the world. Dr. Shtup happens to be the Barista that day.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 10:33
Cafe Buzz-Carnegie Hall
From: Gail Isaacson
Series: "Cafe Buzz" Absurd Radio Plays
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Susan and Paul meet at another Cafe Buzz, this time in Manhattan, near Carnegie Hall. Susan finds herself in a circular dilemma.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 10:38
UnFictional: Moms Gone Wild
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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In the 1970's, Minneapolis was Funky Town. One night, Joanna's mom met a disco guy with a body-sized freezer who took her on the worst date she eve...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, WFMU, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Buried Alive? Katy the Kollector
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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What separates a collector from a hoarder? What do our rooms, be they messy or neat, say about us and our experiences?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
Drawing from Nightlife
From: Thomas Dodson
Series: Champs Not Chumps
Caption: Bunnies posing at Dr. Sketchy's, Credit: Justin Moore
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
Finding the Muse
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Jazz Fest 2011
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At last weekend's 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lauren Peterson spoke with a member of the Muses, an all-female...

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 3
Foul Hook: My Fishing Lesson
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Short fishing tale from my stream behind the strip mall, a lesson not so much about fish

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:10
3. Kinoko, YMCA staff and musical chip bender
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Dayjob is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
B-Side Radio: The Clothes Make the (Wo)Man
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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They say the clothes make the man, or woman. On this edition of B-Side we explore what our clothes say about who we are. B-Side's Tamara Keith visi...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, Remix Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KUT-HD, and KGOU


  • Added: May 11, 2008
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Church Yoga
From: Mary Ketarkus Brown
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Non-fiction humor essay yoga class held inside a church reminds woman of her Catholic childhood.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
Tattoo Me n' You
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tattooists disgruntled. Why?

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jun 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1