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Work/Life Series: Stepping out of the Workforce
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How do we balance raising our kids, retaining our careers, and at the same time find time for ourselves and our families?

  • Added: Sep 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa (Podcast)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Melissa in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
Listen to Melissa's teenage and grown-up diaries in this podcast episode.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 39:30
The Beat: Julia Oxenreider - "Numb"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:46
Partners in the Struggle
From: Making Contact
Caption: Rumbidzai Dube, Daria "DJ" Hudson, Ingrid Cruz, Leehee Rothschild, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
What does it mean to be an ally in a political movement? From white Americans in the civil rights era, to Israelis in Palestine, to Latino-American...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Off to a New Start
From: American Student Radio
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Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
The Gentle Women of Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Valaida Snow
This one hour program highlights some of the greatest and obscure female jazz musicians of all time. These great ladies are masters of the harp, vi...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 56:08
  • Purchases: 4
Sicilian Grandmother Takes on The Godfather
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Pina Maisano Grassi is a fabrics store owner and dedicated activist in the fight against the Mafia. Her husband was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the Mafia’s extortion tax., Credit: Nancy Greenleese
An 84-year-old grandmother and business owner is taking on the mob in Sicily. Organized criminals demand that business owners pay protection money...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:21
StoryCorps: Rowena Gore-Simmons and Kenya Gore
From: StoryCorps
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Rowena Gore-Simmons speaks with her daughter, Kenya Gore, about the year Rowena spent in prison.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Labels and Discrimination
From: Littleglobe
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In this edition of Audio Revolution students from YMP’s production team explore the theme of labels and discrimination from a variety of angles inc...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Gail Rixen - "Old Barn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Women in Sports
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Guido on women in sports.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
Getting out of Gang Life
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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In surprising and sometimes shocking detail, Kaycee shares what her life in a gang entailed, how her teachers changed her life, and how she's pursu...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 16:04
Quick Queue: Michelle Zimmerman
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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By Marcheta Fornoff. Michelle Zimmerman balances life between school to become a dental hygienist, and hitting the gym to train as a bodybuilder. T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Edith Green and her granddaughter, Chaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
GBA 18: Sam
From: Dave Pickering
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In GBA 18 we get better acquainted with Sam. She talks about having a premature baby, being a young mum, nearly marrying a man she met on holiday i...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:13
Syria's YouTube Revolution
From: Latitude News
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As the Syrian revolution unfolded over the last year, Syrian-Americans have been glued to YouTube - the primary source of information from the war ...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
Real Good Words: Cheryl Strayed - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
Post Trauma And The Role Of Sexual Harassment
From: KUOW
Series: Less Than Honorable: Sexual Assault In The US Military
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The third and final part of our series examines military sexual post truama and the role that sexual harrasment plays in miltary sex crime.

Bought by WEZU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
It becomes more beautiful all the time
From: Anne Hoffman
Caption: The producer and her Grandmother, several years ago
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Vagina Monologues
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a 2004 conversation with Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina Monologue," for Women's History Month.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and WMMT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ellen Baker, author of "I Gave My Heart To Know This"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Angel of the Night: The Angela Bofill Story (Hour #1)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Angela Bofill, Credit: http://www.angelabofill.com/
ANGELA BOFILL tells her story beginning with arranging and singing with RICARDO MARRERO. Her solo career began with the release of her first LP on ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 52:16
A Conversation with Debra Granik
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Director Debra Granik discusses her award-winning film, Winter's Bone.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 23 - Marriage Before Deployment
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A single mom decides to marry her best friend before his deployment to Iraq.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:43

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