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The philosophers who invented the modern self
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix
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Just over 200 years ago, a group of renegade German writers and philosophers came together in a small town and forever changed who we think we are....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 20:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Witch Beat
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we are talking about witches. And interesting religions, new & old. And especially California’s incredible occult countercultures—the esote...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
737: Generation Witch / 738: Rituals Of Fear, 10/29/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - They’ve been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake, but witches are still practicing the craft. We take you fr...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:58
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
The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing from Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
97: The 6888th All WOC Postal Battalion
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
73: Bridget 'Biddy' Mason
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:14
The Write Question - Sharma Shields - 390
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sharma Shields discusses her novel, The Cassandra. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
Women's History Makes The Future - Blanche Wiesen Cook
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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"Some of us have too much of this world’s goods​... and we are thereby separated too widely from each other," ​wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Honey From a Weed: The Life of Patience Gray
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Patience Gray in her flat in London, circa 1960. Photo by Stefan Buzás. Courtesy of Nicholas Gray.
A weed might be said to represent valuelessness, and worse perhaps, a thing which actively devalues what many consider to be the proper and true wa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 57:53
  • Purchases: 1
Patty Boyd
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Everything you need to know about the most inspirational woman in rock history.

Bought by KWIT, WSGE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance (Celene Lillie) ENCORE
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: The Rape of Eve by Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Jamie Harrison - 295
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jamie Harrison discusses her new historical novel, The Widow Nash. She also reads passages from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
"Eleanor and Hitch: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady" w/ author Susan Quinn
From: Out of Bounds
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Lively and informative discussion w/Author Susan Quinn as we focus on her bestseller "Eleanor and Hitch: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady"

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Here We Are Still Today
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Aimee Arent. She's the associate manager of the Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, a job...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age

Bought by WJCT, WNSB, WCQS, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Glass Ceiling & The Ivory Tower (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions at the nation's universities - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female pre...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Ceiling & The Ivory Tower (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female candidates for president - The u...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
RDD: La Grande Dame of the Arts (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Drafts Diaries first, the connections have run dry. In our last episode, our interview only gave one connection instead of the usual thr...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:11