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S07 Ep22: Women of Old, Part 3, 1/28/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week we look back at music from the Baroque and before. These are Women of Old who laid the foundation for the women of today.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
EP227 Angela Strehli
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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This artist has been instrumental in keeping the blues alive for over 6 decades

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - Emma Donovan - 839
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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"Emma Donovan can front a well-oiled soul band in her sleep” – Rolling Stone Renowned Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter Emma Donovan joi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
S07 Ep02: Look to the Past, 9/10/2022
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, works by women from the Baroque and Classical eras.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:31
701: Shapeshifting / 702: Finding Your Voice, 6/25/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
AG 22-10: Shout, Sister, Shout: The Great American Songbook's Feminist Anthems, 2/28/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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The Great American Songbook is chockablock with antiquated notions of gender roles, but a few songs flip the script. This week, we explore songs of...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
S06 Ep13: In Olden Times, 11/27/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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It’s a trip through the centuries, as we hear music composed by women In Olden Days. From 16th century convents, to the court of a king, and Victo...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
Military Women’s Memorial: A little known gem preserving HERstory
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Phyllis Wilson's Military headshot
Phyllis Wilson, a retired Army veteran of 37 years and President of the Military Women’s Memorial Foundation, joins us to talk about the Memorial a...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 42:48
88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
EP12 Tribute to Candye Kane
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Candye Kane had an amazing life. She had a great voice, cool music and was a woman who was a champion for other women in the world regarding strugg...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 50:23
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
89: Jiu Jitsu Suffragettes
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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That's right. Way back in the early 1900s, when women were protesting for the right to vote, there was a four-foot eleven-inch woman teaching the S...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 09:26
133: Gail Collins and the Adventures of Older Women in American History
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Gail Collins & Lauren Schiller
When the colonists first came to America their ideal wife "was a woman who was civil and under 50 years of age." In the early seventies an ad decla...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WNIN, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Sonia Purnell, author of "A Woman Of No Importance"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Amy Bloom – Love as Creator
From: Barry Vogel
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Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
WoodSongs 972: Si Kahn & Friends
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Folk legend Si Kahn on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes folk icon Si Kahn to celebrate his legacy with special appearances from T...

Bought by KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, WETS, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 22
117: The End of Human Trafficking May Begin With Radical Empathy -Julia Flynn Siler
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
112: How Radical Change Happens - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl, Credit: Casey Orr
Times like these call for radical ideas. But is being a radical a positive thing? And if so, why are so many radicals seen as dangerous? In this...

Bought by KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT, WNIN and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Time for Ilhan
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we interview Chris Newberry a producer and director of photogrophy for the film Time for Ilhan the story of the first ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:52
Finding Oneself: Victoria Price and Bobby Bluejacket
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Michael P. Daley and Victoria Price
Interviews with Victoria Price, author of The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self, and Michael P. Daley, author of Bobby Bluejacket: T...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Betty Reid Soskin
For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Code Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Liza Mundy
The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women's History Special - Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A one-hour program focusing on jazz singer and songwriter Peggy Lee. Great for Women's History Month!

Bought by KMUW, WJSU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6