PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring
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Scheming in the commandant's dress shop.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 52:28
- Purchases: 3
Jeannette Rankin, was born in 1880 in her parent’s ranch in Montana and became the first woman elected to Congress in 1917.
She was a key organi...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 4
Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"
- Added: Dec 02, 2019
- Length: 30:01
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
