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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
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.
Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 8
In honor of Flag Day and the Fourth of July, the Smithsonian unveils the often misunderstood stories behind two of our nation's most famous flags: ...
Bought by WVTF, KALW, KVMR, KVNF, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 59
The life and music of Helen Wheels. Her band performed at CBGB's in New York during the height of the punk movement in the 70s, before her untimely...
- Added: Apr 19, 2022
- Length: 59:30
Stop laughing Americans, it's not what you think. Starting with the industrial revolution in the UK, people were employed as human alarm clocks, wa...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 2
An interview with Danforth Prince, author of "The Seductive Sapphic Exploits of Mercedes de Acosta: Hollywood's Greatest Lover"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 24:30
When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1987 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathol...
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 33:35
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: :59
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.
Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR
- Added: Dec 09, 2018
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
Radio curious revisits a conversation with Diane Eickhoff, who portrays early women's rights activist Clarina Nichols in this chautauquan style int...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:01
Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery bus...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 21:16
- Purchases: 1
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
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Julia Scheeres/Jonestown Patricia Cohen/middle-age Vern Yip/decorator Dr. Richard Ablin/Prostate Cancer Susan Shane/desk exercise
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 54:00
Hundreds of New England towns honor their oldest resident with a cane when the previous town elder dies. Some recipients celebrate; others feel cur...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning New York Times sports journalist Mary Pilon reads from her new book, The Monopolists.... The content may not be what you think; trivi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 01:40
The end of year issues all over magazine stands in India all carry photo spreads of the icons we lost. Famous people from the world of politics and...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 06:00
We mark the centennial of the start of World War I with the acclaimed author of 29 books, including the well-known SCHINDLER'S LIST (originally SCH...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Join Gloria Steinem, Jane Wyatt, Snow White, Lucille Ball, Rex Harrison, Diana Ross & the Supremes,George Burns & Gracie Allen, James Brown and a c...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 58:12
The story of how the River East area of Chicago has changed from the land of greasy spoons and parking lots, into one of the most fashionable areas...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 05:50
