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Women's History Month
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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“Sounds Jewish” celebrates International Women’s Day (March 8th) and Women’s History Month (March) with a global playlist of recordings by Jewish w...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of US Ep. 04 Casper
From: Adam Scher
Series: Portrait of US
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Casper talks with us about coming to terms with health struggles.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
Vod's Here
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Michelle Atkinson goes by her roller derby name, Vod. She also named her craft business after the same moniker, Vod's Here. The venture is a brand ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
2213: Refeed: To All the Boys I've Loved Before & Workin' Moms, 3/31/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear playwright and screenwriter Sofia Alvarez discuss the difference between writing for the stage and screen and the ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
205: Vatican Women's Rifle Team
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Amy pulled out all the stops for this shenanigan filled episode. Don't be an April's Fool like Trace.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
S03 Ep52: Humorous Music, 8/24/2019
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Who says classical music needs to be stuffy? This week, music with a sense of humor.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
Heavenly Harp
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Harpist Kirsten Agresta Copley, Credit: courtesy of the artist
New Releases with Harp

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, Interlochen Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Redacted (by the Aliens)
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies, joins us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
54: Exploding Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Meet C. explodens; worker ants who rupture their own abdomens--filled with toxic goo--to protect the colony from predators.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
34: Wombat Poop
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
Sandra Cisneros, Latina author of the classic "The House on Mango Street"
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Med...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, XRAY.fm, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Comedian Maggie Ferris
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with Minnesota based comedian Maggie Ferris. She tells us what its like to be a female comedian, a dog wal...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 40:20
Dig #167
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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We'll listen to one by the Houston band where ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons got his start, a pre-Motown cut by Rare Earth, a rare cut from one of Motown's...

Bought by KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWIT, KRZA, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dig #165
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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We'll listen to surprising covers of tunes written by Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, and Janis Ian; a couple of husband-and-wife acts that were on the pop...

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, Delmarva Public Media, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Female Millennials Love Wine!
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: wine drinking millennial
Our Millennial Wine Panel members discuss female millennial-centered wine marketing efforts. We also get into the Mailbag & Wine News. A jovial &...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Targeting Boomers / Reentering The Job Market / Modern Guide to Manners / Sacrifices of Military Families / Crossword Puzzles!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Matt Thornhill/boomer marketing Segment 2&3: Gwen Rosener and Linda Murphy/women's employment Segment 4: Henry Alford/manners Segment 5:...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1461 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/29/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Our favorite Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic starts a Hacksaw groove, then from Ruthie Foster's seasoned voice thru samba snow and vintage main...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 7
Esther Hoffmann's Deities-Without-Benefits
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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Women's Words featuring Esther Hoffmann, a poet from Mankato, Minnesota, reading her poem "When God Was My Boyfriend."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
A Goddess of the Milky Way
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Esther Marcella Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading two poems, "For the Males," and "Mama Gaia."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Nerdette S02-E04 (06/30/14): Mad houses, Mississippi Goddam and Modernist art
From: WBEZ
Caption: Nellie Bly
Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of muckraker Nellie Bly, painter Georgia O'Keeffe and jazz singer Nina Simone. We talk to authors, une...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nerdette Special: Great Lady Nerds of American History
From: WBEZ
Series: Nerdette
Caption: Nerdette Great Lady Nerds of History Spcial
For America's birthday, Nerdette highlights the mothers of movements. Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of journalist Nellie Bly, painte...

Bought by WCNY, KOSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WHRV, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Decorating Cookies at CookieCon [Boomerology Revealed #10]
From: Shahar Boyayan
Series: Boomerology Revealed
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A visit to CookieCon

  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 34:34
Nerdette S02-E03 (06/23/14): Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner tells us how to Think Like a Freak
From: WBEZ
Caption: Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...

Bought by KUAC, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 3
Nerdette S02-E02 (06/16/14): Mary Roach wants you to spit in your food, and AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire'
From: WBEZ
Caption: Pop-science author, Mary Roach
Pop science author Mary Roach tells Nerdette hosts Tricia and Greta about answering gross questions most of us are too afraid to ask. Plus a conver...

Bought by WRIR, KMXT, and KUAC


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2011 NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz. [34:48]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 34:49
  • Purchases: 1