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Caption: Kathryn Smith
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Women might more readily fall in love with people of any gender... because of our fluid sexual nature and where love is in our brain.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:11
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August in Minnesota means a lot of things, mosquitos, jokes about the humidity, and swimming in the normally frozen lakes and rivers. It also mean...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
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A short, flash fiction story about a young boy riding in a car with his grandmother. He is in awe of her awe.

  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
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Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Ann Brooks
Ann Brooks, Prof. of Education at Texas State University, speaks about her Fulbright experiences in Cambodia.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 13:09
Caption: Monica Sanchez
A mythological autobiography that is a contemporary odyssey through latitudes of heart and mind.

Bought by KUNM, KUPR low power FM, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 03, 2016
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 3
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High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
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The asteroid named for Mildred Shapley Matthews was lost in the solar system for 75 years.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:33
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This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:14
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we'll meet Shelley Kotz, a person so involved in the community of Toledo it's hard to cover everything she doe...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we'll take a look into the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and a woman that portrays her, Gail Conrad. Gail...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: Suzette Jordan
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it. In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
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In today’s installment of The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we find a little bit of light in the darkness as we hear about a volunteer drive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 31:31
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This civil liberty loving country listens with astonishment to Donald Trump, ignore religious freedom and propose that no Muslims be allowed into t...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:22
Caption: Mrs. Joyce Meyers, Credit: Photo by Alysia Burton Steele
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 2
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The 2015 Black Friday shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs is explored in this December 2 episode of KCMJ Community Radio’s ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: :00
Caption: Erika Escalante stands in front of her home at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Credit: Angela Johnston
Buena Vista is a diverse community, made up of seniors, families, people with disabilities. The majority of residents are low income, and Latino. P...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:08
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So, here we are, August 4th, 2015, and I’m asking "Is a Woman A Person?" You laugh, no, scoff at me for asking this. Of course!, you say. But are w...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:41
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A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
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An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 31:27
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Katia Hauser explores the intricacies of teenagers having the legal right to make their own medical decisions.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1