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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
Wrestlers Body Slam Domestic Violence
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Midwest All-Star Wrestling League recently invited wrestlers from across the country to compete in Minnesota. Behind all the trash-talking and ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WDSE


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Marie Benedict
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Journalist and director of arts and culture for the city of Detroit Rochelle Riley interviews author Marie Benedict.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
S2 E4 Enjoy Your Life
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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When caring for a young woman with a brain cancer diagnosis, medicine resident Colleen Farrell comes to grips with her own mortality.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 33:36
The Write Question - Kisha Schlegel - 380
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kisha Schlegel discusses her collection of essays, "Fear Icons." She also reads short passages from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
57: Stagecoach Mary
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

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


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KDNK


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
37: Violet Jessup
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The unsinkable Violet. 3 ships, one woman who survived them all.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
A survivor and her perpetrator find justice
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:15
Meow! The Kids Book That Changed The Genre Forever
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Wanda Gag and her cat, Snoopy., Credit: Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries
Decades before "Cat in the Hat," another children’s book surprised readers with its inventiveness. "Millions of Cats," by Minnesota's Wanda Gag, co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 2
Gender & STEM Achievement
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Girls get slightly higher grades in science and math worldwide than boys, but fewer enter STEM professions.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Episode 92: Dementia Americana
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. The early 20th century’s biggest murder trial, and a part...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 21:05
Episode 91: The "It" Girl
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The story behind the face of New York’s Gilded Age, Evelyn Nesbit.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 27:24
Poet Susan Aizenberg
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Susan Aizenberg discusses the use of fiction within poetry, admitting that she draws from real life, but notes that there is a distinction bet...

Bought by KFCF FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Patriotic Women
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Patriotic Women - including Patrice Michaels, Credit: Cedille
Have you seen The Notorious RBG? You can hear works in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as well as American Canvas by Jennifer Higdon, and The...

Bought by KMUN, High Plains Public Radio, WETS, KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Mommy Dearest: A History of American Motherhood [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Special Programming
Caption: Twin mothers with their newborn babies at Columbia Maternity Hospital, Washington, D.C., April 7th, 1939 , Credit: Library of Congress
Some say motherhood is the hardest job in the world; turns out, there's a lot of history to back that up. In this special Mother's Day episode, the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WUFT, KISU, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 24
How Sputnik Sent Women to College
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...

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


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promo - Leni Stern - 670
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: :45
Women Lead On Screen: Helen Clark & Gaylene Preston
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Women's leadership on the screen, in the streets and on the world stage. This week, New Zealand's former prime minister, Helen Clark and filmmaker ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 12
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Running For Your Life" and "Hurricane Of The Heart" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: After breaking his back, doctors told Gary...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 5: Leonora Carrington
From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 26:34
The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 2: Fanny Blankers-Koen
From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 27:12
Art and Motorcycles
From: Rachel Ishikawa
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Fall off your bike, get a band aid. Have a headache, take an ibuprofen. Pain is often fleeting…and there’s a cure. But what happens when pain is co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3

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