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035: (Single) Mothered: Choosing to Parent Solo, 5/10/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
'I Will Always Love You': Jada Star’s musical bond with her aunt Dolly Parton
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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What's it like being related to someone super famous? Like… Dolly Parton! Singer-songwriter Jada Star talks about shining bright in her aunt Dolly’...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Julianne Larsen and Mar Fenix Nauta
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Julianne Larsen and Mar Fenix Nauta at their StoryCorps interview in Logan, Utah on May 3, 2023., Credit: By Delilah Righter for StoryCorps.
Julianne Larsen and Mar Fenix Nauta remember the start of their romantic relationship, and how they’ve lifted each other up through the highs and l...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45
Dierdre Wolownick is much more than Alex Honnold's mom
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Today's guest is Dierdre Wolownick. What first captures many people’s attention is the fact that Dierdre is mother to world-renowned climber, Alex ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Jade Rone and Stacia Parker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jade Rone talks to her foster mother, Stacia Parker, about the early days of their relationship and the journey that brought them closer together.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Yaa Gyasi and Kate Walbert
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interviews with authors Yaa Gyasi and Kate Walbert.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Hadiyah-Nicole Green-Argieard and Tenika Floyd
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hadiyah-Nicole Green-Argieard and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on January 28, 2017., Credit: Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green speaks with her cousin Tenika Floyd about being raised by her Auntie and Uncle, and how their separate battles with cancer...

Bought by WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lisa Bouler Daniels and Benjamin Chambers
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:49
Finding Our Fathers
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Eboni (left) and Raven (right)
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Other's Milk: The Potential for Exceptional Breastfeeding
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Kristin J. Wilson
Just two generations ago, breastfeeding was considered second best to infant formula. Today, however, it’s regarded as a newborn’s birthright.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Osborn, John Jay:  A Marriage as a Separate Entity
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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“Listen to the Marriage” is a novel by John Jay Osborn, a retired lawyer and law professor. The story centers a marriage counselor and a recently s...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
A Not So Big Life: Sarah Susanka #117 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Architect Sarah Susanka observed that houses in the U.S. were getting larger – but some rooms were seldom occupied, and often not even furnished. S...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KRZA, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Sarah Churchill and Yomi Wrong
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sarah Churchill tells her daughter Yomi Wrong -- who has a genetic disorder that causes her bones to break easily -- about the night Yomi was born.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, WVBI-LP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Alicia Beltrán-Castañeda and Serena Castañeda
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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A mother tells her daughter about growing up in California in the late 1960s, and the lesson learned after her mother gave her beloved bed away.

Bought by KZYX, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 4
Still Here: Caregiving and Dementia
From: Safe Space Radio
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This hour-long special is about the unspoken challenges of caring for a family member with dementia. The show explores the experience of ambiguous ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WFAE and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
"Hijab Diaries"
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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A new podcast new to WFHB

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:41
Jaciara Bayer: Transracial Adoptions and White Privilege
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Jaciara Bayer, a transracial adoptee who shares her personal experiences of being told she’s different, growing up in a w...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Claudia Emerson: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...

Bought by WABE and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 3: Beth's Story
From: Mother
Series: MOTHER: A PODCAST
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"My sense has been that most men ultimately really do want children, and I think many of longer relationships -- that's been part of the end." -Bet...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Poet, Novelist, and Non-Fiction Writer Janet Burroway
From: New Letters on the Air
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Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Tara and Lulama
From: Littleglobe
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
OOC2: Chris Taylor
From: Jake Harper
Series: Out of Context
Caption: Wisconsin Rep. Chris Taylor , Credit: Jake Harper
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:40