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Bold Women of Montana - 0329 - Diane Sands
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0313 - Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0310 - Womens Influence on the Montana Constitution
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0309 - Alma Smith Jacobs
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0308 - Emma Riley Smith
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0306 - Frieda and Belle Fligelman
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0303 - Women's Protective Union
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0302 - Myrna Loy
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Child Hero Martina
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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In the early morning hours of February 27, 2010, Martina Marturana felt a slight tremor that lasted a long time. The 12-year-old lived on Robinson...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Vocalist, Dianne Reeves
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Dianne Reeves can effortlessly sing in whatever style she wants with her far-reaching range, whether it’s rhythm-and-blues, gospel, Latin or pop. B...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 13
Shaky Ground: Kamaishi Heroes
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Kamaishi junior high students saved themselves and many others during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Geologist Lori Dengler highlights t...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
S3: Basil and Investing at Artesian Farms #78
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Jeff Adams of Artesian Farms On this episode, Romy catches back up with Jeff Adams of Artesian Farms in Detroit. She interviewed him in Season 1, ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 34:03
S3: Motown Rising Jacob de Golish #75
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Jacob de Golish
Motown Rising with Jacob de Golish! This episode has a lot to do with building, construction, restoration and the skilled trades. Jacob walks us ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 31:15
NEA Jazz Moments with Advocate Wendy Oxenhorn
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Wendy Oxenhorn says "musicians and their records have saved our lives time and time again. We owe them the services they need to age well."

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 10
Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Ross McKenzie was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but after 15 years on Lithium, he wasn’t getting any better. He decided to take matters into hi...

Bought by KPVL, WRIR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Toby McLeod
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
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Vision Maker Media Assistant Director George Lee (Navajo) speaks with filmmaker Toby McLeod about his upcoming series Standing on Sacred Ground

  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 21:48
Radio Retrospective: Rod Serling
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Rod Serling, Credit: Wikipedia
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...

Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 5
Day Job 7: The Lonesome Luthier
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ben Todd of Lonesome Shack restores broken guitars, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ben Todd restores guitars for The Trading Musician in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. And he's become deeply embedded in the local music scene. B...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with ANTHONY BRAXTON
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Anthony Braxton. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn why ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 14
Living Downstream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Steingraber , Credit: www.livingdownstream.com/
Renowned biologist Sandra Steingraber has made fighting environmentally induced cancers her life’s work. We hear excerpts of the documentary film,...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Hank Mobley
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Hank Mobley
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe illuminates the importance of those who will not settle for a glory in mediocrity, but who urge others to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with Mose Allison
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Mose Allison. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about M...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 16
Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks
From: N Lorde
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
Ron: Ladder fall from grain tank
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Caption: Ron McHargue with son Mike McHargue
Ron McHargue [mic-KAR-guh'] describes to son Mike his fall from a ladder on a metal grain tank

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Diana: Combine Amputation
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Caption: Diana Hansen and her daughter Tanya Mitchell
Diana Hansen, wheat farmer, recounts losing her arm, relearning to do everything and refusing to be a victim.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:01