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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
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
Turn on the television at any hour, and you're bound to find a reality television show on. Many of these shows feature businesses - there are shows...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 07:39
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 3
Fifteen year old Delia Hernandez tells her nurse why she breastfeeds.
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 08:06
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
WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 18:38
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
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
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
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 34:34
From: WBEZ
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...
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
From: WBEZ
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...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Jocelyn Pihlaja reading her short story, "Nice Day for a White Wedding."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
Two skaters for the Reno-based Battle Born Derby Demons, Anita JamBayou (also known as Kris Malen) and D’Napalm (also known as Dene’ White-Atcheson...
- Added: Jun 15, 2014
- Length: 16:22
Bill and Becca have been together for 10 years. And, between the 2 of them, they’ve since had over 30 other partners. It’s no secret. They’re polya...
- Added: Jun 15, 2014
- Length: 07:40
Jenny Bovey's fish don't stink. She's one of the few full time practitioners of a 2,000-year-old Japanese art form called "Gyotaku." She and her h...
Bought by WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 04:28
- Purchases: 4
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, and other musings.
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:27
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
Kerstin Rodgers aka Ms Marmite Lover - queen of London's underground restaurants - chats with me in her kitchen in Kilburn, North London. Topics du...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 19:24
President Obama had some inspiring words for women in this year's State of the Union Speech. But we've heard good words before. Can he turn rhetor...
- Added: Jan 30, 2014
- Length: 02:30
After not seeing each other for a long time, Paul and Susan happen to meet at the local coffee shop where Paul brings up some intimate possibilities.
- Added: Nov 01, 2013
- Length: 08:27
Bobby speaks, on location, from Columbus Circle (the literal epicenter of New York City) with Nicole Raymondi, creator of Quotiful, an iPhone app, ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2013
- Length: 36:58
Jennifer Bentley is 67 years old, has lived in Puerto Rico for more than 40 years, and hates the cold. So how did she end up skiing down a Maine m...
- Added: Sep 15, 2013
- Length: 02:00
When does trash talk in online gaming cross a line?
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 18:31
